PlayersExclusiveJoinList.txt deleted after every update

[sMuve]

Hello everyone!

first i want to thanks the developer of this awesome tool :D Works like a charm!

imo i've only one problem:

I've activated the "check for updates before each restart" and the "make a backup before each update" option (can't tell the exact name, because i'm at work ;( ) and this works fine, but I alsp use arkflag_exclusivejoin="" and after each update (not every restart!) the PlayersExclusiveJoinList.txt in my ShooterGame/Binaries/Linux folder is gone.

I also recognized, that my GameUserSettings.ini and Game.ini is little bit messed up after each update. The content of each of the ini's in still in it, but without breaks.

Any ideas or do you need any additional infos ?

Thanks in advance!

PS: While the whole backup/update/restart process don't appear any error or warning message. See below (sry for the long text, but i don't find a spoiler command):

steam@Ubuntu-1610-yakkety-64-minimal:~$ arkmanager restart Running command 'restart' for instance 'main' The server has been stopped Checking for updates before starting Checking for update; PID: 8869 Downloading mod 679529026 ... Mod 679529026 downloaded Downloading mod 715028562 ... Mod 715028562 downloaded Downloading mod 731604991 ... Mod 731604991 downloaded Downloading mod 741203089 ... Mod 741203089 downloaded Downloading mod 764755314 ... Mod 764755314 downloaded Downloading mod 816908578 ... Mod 816908578 downloaded Downloading ARK update ... The server is already stopped \033[0;39m Saved arks directory is /home/steam/arkserver/ShooterGame/Saved/Saved Arks Copying ARK world file (TheVolcano) [ OK ] Copying ARK profile files 76561197960430638.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561197961965809.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561197969107364.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561197970376879.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561197970420793.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561197973090101.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561197976196370.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561197976454008.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561197990276825.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561197998545088.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561197998885662.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198004758483.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198006882531.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198018405759.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198018933057.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198039408574.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198043100186.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198067287111.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198075713298.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198076084135.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198086453388.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198091276471.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198120838885.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198126794592.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198128029183.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198153821290.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198165376945.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198201584867.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198241567020.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198247637962.arkprofile [ OK ] 76561198312660730.arkprofile [ OK ] Copying ARK tribe files 1097353625.arktribe [ OK ] 1553123759.arktribe [ OK ] 1558278930.arktribe [ OK ] 1696458313.arktribe [ OK ] 1836515334.arktribe [ OK ] 1880739971.arktribe [ OK ] Copying ARK tribute tribe files Copying GameUserSettings.ini [ OK ] Copying Game.ini [ OK ] Compressing Backup [ OK ] Created Backup: 2017-02-14_15.06.54.tar.bz2 Applying update from staging directory Update to 1629936 complete The server is starting... The server is now running, and should be up within 10 minutes

[ghost]

Also experiencing this issue. Update cron */5 * * * * /home/steam/updatescript.sh >> /home/steam/updatelog.txt

Contents of /home/steam/updatescript.sh are

/usr/local/bin/arkmanager update --warn --saveworld --update-mods @all

[sMuve]

this only creats a cron job and updates ark and all mods with previous warning and saving for all ark instances or am i wrong ?

[ghost]

@sMuve that's probably correct. I'm reading through the script to see if I can spot the bug.

I suspect it's not backing up that file, and it gets erased when steam updates the game (update likely meaning delete old, replace with new)

[sMuve]

@xangold is your GameUserSettings.ini and Game.ini also "messed up" like i described in my post ?

[klightspeed]

3404df7 and b0b10c8 should prevent any .txt files in ShooterGame/Binaries/Linux from being deleted or overwritten.

[ghost]

@klightspeed I'm not sure what's happening then. It started occurring for me yesterday after using that cron above. Prior to that I'd been manually doing arkmanager saveworld && arkmanager restart @all

[ghost]

I had to restore the whitelist manually twice since then, once last night, and once this morning (though not every update did it, as the backup script I had has contents in most of the backups)

[klightspeed]

I will be releasing a version with those fixes very shortly.

[ghost]

Oh, didn't realize those were not merged, my bad!

[klightspeed]

v1.6.18 should fix the deleted PlayerExclusiveJoin.txt issue.

[sMuve]

@klightspeed do you have any idea why my GameUserSettings and Game.ini are messed up after the updates ? i tried to paste the content via right-click in putty and i also tried to upload the ini's via ftp, but in both cases the ini don't have any breaks after updates where made by the arkservermanager

[klightspeed]

What program are you using to open the ini files?

Does cat /home/steam/arkserver/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/GameUserSettings.ini show any line breaks?

Note that if you are using non-ascii characters in your MOTD or server name, the server will write the ini file as a UCS16 unicode file.

arkmanager will not itself modify any of the game ini files in ShooterGame/Saved/Config

[sMuve]

i'm using nano on ubuntu 16.10.

cat shows me the correct breaks atm and my server name is without any non-ascii characters, but in my motd was one.

So i'll check the ini after the next ark patch and if there still is an issue with it i'll let you know.

thanks so much!

[ghost]

fwiw I've never had my .ini files change.

@sMuve if this is fixed, mind closing the issue?

[sMuve]

yeah it's ok, because the main problem is solved :)

[sMuve]

tested everything and it works fine now 👍