server launch from bat file

[spudy12]

righto, i'm running my server from a batch file. i usually created a shortcut to this in the startup startmenu folder.
I've recently just moved my server to a RAM drive which is working amazingly!
however, if I run this script, it usually runs before the RAM drive has been detected, or it can't find the script.

How do I make a bat file that waits 10 secs (think i've figured this out using ping) then runs the server startup bat file on the RAM drive?

Spud

 

[Nessiroj]

Add the following code at the start of the batchfile (or after @echo off)

ping 123.45.67.89 -n 1 -w 10000 > nul

You can ping an address that surely doesn't exist and specify the desired timeout:
 
ping 123.45.67.89 -n 1 -w 10000 > nul
And since the address does not exists, it'll wait 10,000 ms (10 seconds) and returns.
 
The -w 10000 part specifies the desired timeout in milliseconds.
The -n 1 part tells ping that it should only tries once (normally it'd try 4 times).
The > nul part is appended so the ping command doesn't output anything to screen.
You can easily make a sleep command yourself by creating a sleep.bat somewhere in your PATH and use the above technique

 

[spudy12]

Thanks
I'd figured out the ping part. The part I'm struggling with is pointing it to run a .bat file that is on a different drive
how do I do this?

 

[Nessiroj]

call msbuild.bat
call unit-tests.bat
call deploy.bat
 
Or for example
 
call c:\msbuild.bat
call d:\unit-tests.bat
call e:\deploy.bat

 

[spudy12]

Right, so I have now got it to call the serverstart bat file but nothing happens.
when i put a pause in the script, this is what I see

C:\Users\Media-Server\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Star
tup>ping -n 11 127.0.0.1  1>nul
 
C:\Users\Media-Server\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Star
tup>call H:\Minecraft\MindCrack\Server-Start.bat
 
C:\Users\Media-Server\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Star
tup>java -Xms2G -Xmx4G -jar mindcrack.jar -server -XX:+AggressiveOpts -XX:UseSSE
=4 -XX:+UseFastAccessorMethods -XX:CMSFullGCsBeforeCompaction=1 -XX:+CMSParallel
RemarkEnabled -XX:+UseCMSCompactAtFullCollection -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+DisableEx
plicitGC -XX:ParallelGCThreads=4
Error: Unable to access jarfile mindcrack.jar
 
C:\Users\Media-Server\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Star
tup>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

 

[Nessiroj]

something goes wrong with the server-start.bat

Change:

java -Xms2G -Xmx4G -jar mindcrack.jar -server -XX:+AggressiveOpts -XX:UseSSE
=4 -XX:+UseFastAccessorMethods -XX:CMSFullGCsBeforeCompaction=1 -XX:+CMSParallel
RemarkEnabled -XX:+UseCMSCompactAtFullCollection -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+DisableEx
plicitGC -XX:ParallelGCThreads=4

to

java -server -Xms2G -Xmx4G -XX:+AggressiveOpts -XX:UseSSE
=4 -XX:+UseFastAccessorMethods -XX:CMSFullGCsBeforeCompaction=1 -XX:+CMSParallel
RemarkEnabled -XX:+UseCMSCompactAtFullCollection -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+DisableEx
plicitGC -XX:ParallelGCThreads=4 -jar H:\Minecraft\Mindcrack\mindcrack.jar

and see if that helps, because the jarfile aint in c: so i guess we need to point it directly