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I have some HLTVs watching various servers. I'd like to be able to write a script that checks the server, say, ever 10 seconds, and if it finds that there is a player connected, automatically starts recording an HLTV demo. If there are no users connected, it would stop the HLTV demo.

Also, if this script could purge HLTV demos after 2 weeks, that would be spectacular.

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ten seconds ?? wouldn't that create a lot of demo files?? that could build up pretty quickly in your mem....

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This exists apparently
http://www.hltv.org/?pageid=204&type=ar

The purge would be simple, again in /etc/crontab for 4AM everyday. This should delete files 14 days old
00 4 * * * /usr/bin/find /hltv/path -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;

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Oh, maybe... I thought it would be intelligent enough to check and see if one was already recording.

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and the hltv will be recording to a harddrive here at our place that is either 250 or 500 gigs I forget. we are gonna try to get some good footage from our pubbing to make some videos.

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will we be able to see the demos?

Hopefully, if I can get it working.

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I posted this on alliedmodders, and after a few weeks got the most amazing plugin from 8088. I've attached the necessary files, as well as the installation instructions.

Requirements:

• PHP 5.2.8 or higher, with PDO
• MySQL 5 or higher

Installation:

1. extract and upload everything to your web space (preferrably into a directory that is password protected)
2. create a database and import hlds.sql
3. edit lib/db.php and change the values of $db_host, $db_user, $db_password and $db_database
4. open index.php in your browser and start adding/editing your servers
5. edit the path to db.php in cronjob/cronjob.php if you move conjob.php to a different location (recommended, but not required)
6. create a cronjob to have cronjob/cronjob.php executed at regular intervals:
   1. this requires the path to db.php to be absolute:
      
      Code:

      php /path/to/cronjob.php

   2. and this allows for a relative path to db.php:
      Code:

      cd /path/to/cronjob.php && php cronjob.php

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