When installing on a Ubuntu server (#31~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 14 14:37:50 UTC 2022)

ubuntu@zomboid:~$ sudo useradd --create-home --shell /bin/bash pzstadmin
ubuntu@zomboid:~$ sudo passwd pzstadmin
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: password updated successfully
ubuntu@zomboid:~$ sudo usermod -aG sudo pzstadmin

The ./pzst/pzst install command outputs a permission denied error after new shell.

ubuntu@zomboid:~$ sudo -i -u pzstadmin
To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.

pzstadmin@zomboid:~$ git clone https://github.com/quarantin/pz-server-tools
Cloning into 'pz-server-tools'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 1768, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (830/830), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (436/436), done.
remote: Total 1768 (delta 562), reused 596 (delta 362), pack-reused 938
Receiving objects: 100% (1768/1768), 224.06 KiB | 8.96 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1133/1133), done.
pzstadmin@zomboid:~$ cd pz-server-tools
pzstadmin@zomboid:~/pz-server-tools$ ./pzst/pzst install
[sudo] password for pzstadmin:
[*] Updating package cache
[*] Upgrading packages
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
[*] Installing new package `jq`
[*] Installing new package `python3-venv`
[*] Installing new package `sqlite3`
[*] Installing new package `unzip`
[*] Adding system user: pzst
[*] Creating virtual environment
[*] Installing Project Zomboid Server Tools
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/pzst’: Permission denied
/usr/local/bin/pzst_config: line 19: /home/pzst/.pzst/config.json: No such file or directory
pzstadmin@zomboid:~/pz-server-tools$

I just installed pzst tools on a new server. Everything is working except the auto restart schedule in the config.json isn't taking effect. I'm been having to manually restart the server.

After moving servers and reinstalling pz-server-tool on the new one, we noticed that other jobs we add to the pzserver1 crontab AND ProjectZomboid64.json are being reset frequently to factory settings. (EDIT Jul 5: it happens on the planned restarts defined at /etc/pzst/config.json).

This is causing Xmx to reset to 8 GB (we have 128 GB, I'm using 96 GB) and server ends up crashing after a restart.

This is a clean install on a fresh ubuntu vps and yes, there are some errors.

I noticed that the cron for pzserver1 is not installed so I took the luxury to input manually myself but when during daily restart, this error pop up and then removed the crons job that I have added.

OK
cp: cannot stat '/home/pzstadmin/pz-server-tools/cron/pzserver': Permission denied
cat: '/home/pzserver1/.pzst/crontabs/*': No such file or directory
find: The argument to -user should not be empty
OK

Evidently, it cannot access pzstadmin's home dir which make sense because the permission is "pzstadmin:pzstadmin" w/ 750 and not "pzstadmin:pzst"

I'm not sure if this is an issue or just a question, but when a mod change is detected and server stops (after the normal countdown) it's taking way longer (maybe close to 10 minutes) than usual for the server to start again. What is the best way to configure restart_delay to, let's say, 1 minute? Thanks!

i have mods that are unlisted and apparently checkmod is unable to get the details of the unlisted mods is it possible to fix that or do i hve to make those mods public?

pzstartloop seems to be hanging on the daily restart and mod updates.

It's a fresh install from a few days ago. Until June 12th it was working flawlessly (I've been using pz-server-tools since March) but with the last commits it seems unstable.

When it's a daily restart or mod update, I see the server shuts down correctly but it doesn't come up. Is there any way I can help looking into it?

We're using Ubuntu 20.04.

Firstly, The cron jobs for pzst isn't installed, I believe because pzst isn't a user. In any case, I manually added those cron jobs.

This line is returning an error, not allowing to run as root so what am I suppose to run it as? */10 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/pzstclearbackups

I checked crontab, it seems to be there * * * * * pzupdate

I checked the /etc/pzst/config.json on both pzstadmin and pzserver1 too Also used pzst checkconfig command. { "daily-restarts": [ "03:00", "09:00", "15:00", "21:00" ], "editor": "nano", "max-backups": 5, "pzservers": [ "pzserver1" ], "restart-sequence": [ 10, 5, 2, 1 ], "user": "pzstadmin", "install": "/home/pzstadmin/pz-server-tools" }

What am I missing? Some kind of permissions?

Whenever stop command is manually entered, the server will stop but it will also boot itself again. Can you make it completely stop and not boot itself?

I have increased the maxmem from default 8g to 13g but every restart of the server, it simply reset back to default again.

According to the official, the json shouldn't reset to default unless the server update or check for new version