Open a WSL session on your windows PC

ssh username@hostname.scottworld.net
sudo -s  (to become root/admin)

This will reboot the server (only really necessary after a kernel update)

reboot

This will cause the server to shutdown and power off - you will need to press the power on button to restart.

shutdown -h now

Occasionally you will need to make sure things are secure and up to date.

apt update   (this will refresh the repositories and look for updates)
apt upgrade   (this will install any new updates)
apt autoremove    (this will remove any old packages that are no longer used)

This will list all disks and their current usage.

df -h

This is really handy to see what is going on. Open a 2nd WSL ssh session to the server and run the following to follow the syslog in real time.

tail -f /var/log/syslog

Use nano to edit files. Its is recommended you use TAB to predict the path and the file name.

nano /path/to/the/file

Exit the file and save after editing with

ctrl x (then press Y to save, followed by enter)

cd /path/to/location  (change directory)
pwd  (show present working directory)
cd ..  (go up a directory)
rm /path/to/file/or/directory -R   (removes a file or directory the -R removes everything in it and under it)
mkdir directoryname    (makes a directory)
rmdir directoryname     (removes a directory)
ls -l    (lists the directory contents in a nice format)
ls -la   (lists the directory as well as hidden files in a nice format)

login as normal … become root.

YOU MUST Change to become the gameadmin user do not run these scripts as root

su gameadmin

change to the gameservers directory.

cd /srv/data/gameservers

Or you can just change to this users home directory

cd ~

To update servers run

./game_updater.sh

To launch servers

./game_launcher,sh

To enable / disable servers to run or update.

Change into the scripts directory, and edit either the game script for that server or the update script. - Change “true” to “false” if you want to enable / disable from the updater or launcher scripts.

To see what servers are running…

screen -ls

To attach to a server instance (to shut it down)

screen -R <the screen id>  e.g  116902.7d2d
ctrl c  (to shut the server down).

or if you don't want to shut it down you can

ctrl+a d   (to detach again and leave it running)

To exit from the gameadmin account just exit…

exit

Use virtual machine manager (on your gandalf machine to see whats going on) It is set to start on system boot, so no need to start it every time.

Your console can be accessed at

http://hobbiton.scottworld.net:8123

There is some useful stuff here

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/command-line-for-beginners#1-overview