[bf1942] Question for a dead list

[ScratchMonkey]

--On Friday, May 23, 2003 2:23 PM +0200 "Fredriksson, Andreas" 
<andreas.fredriksson at dice.se> wrote:

> what I meant was to enable the user to use the tty the server
> is running on to give console commands as well as check status.
>
> You could then ssh to your server box, type screen -r and type away.

Is that usable by automated tools?

Presumably you already have structure to allow multiple game clients to 
simultaneously issue console commands, so adding another console shouldn't 
be too tough? Perhaps later you could add an optional "telnet port" that 
provides a simple TCP socket for issuing console commands. One would 
typically configure it to bind to some port (eg. "server.telnetPort = 
127.0.0.1:1234", "server.telnetPassword = hackme") and then a local app 
(say, a web server) can connect to it to configure the server and report 
status.