Server upgrade problems

[Nightrider84]

i know on my previous version before update. it would tell me my zones are launching which ones are being launched ect. they all showed some kind of info and now they are all black minus that 1 line of text

"edit" ok im an idiot. apparently everything launched fine but because there was no info being displayed on the windows I had no idea the zones were all still loading. zones loaded finally and I can get into game now. only thing I want to figure out is if there is a way to display the info in those boxes althow its not critical now that the server is working

[Scorpious2k]

Originally Posted by Nightrider84

only thing I want to figure out is if there is a way to display the info in those boxes althow its not critical now that the server is working

I can show you what I do on our test server. Instead of using EQLaunch I have a file called Boot1Zone.bat - it looks like this:

@echo off
:restart

zone %1
choice /T 20 /D N /M "Do you really want to stop the server"
if errorlevel 2 goto restart

Then I have a file called BootZones01.bat which contains:

REM:--------------Start-----------------------
@echo off

start boot1zone tutorial
timeout /T 15
start boot1zone .
start boot1zone .
timeout /T 5
start boot1zone .
start boot1zone .
timeout /T 5
exit
REM:---------------END------------------------

The first one will start a zone. I use this to start each zone window. If the zone crashes or shuts down, it asks "Do you really want to stop the server?" and lets me answer Y/N. It waits 20 seconds then restarts the zone. This assumes that I did NOT stop it, that it crashed, and it needs to be restarted.

The second file uses the first file and takes care of bulk starts. It starts a static zone, tutorial, waits 15 seconds, starts two dynamic zones, waits 5 seconds, then starts two more dynamic zones, waits 5 seconds, and ends. It should be noted that the waits are soft waits. You can hit any key to continue without waiting the full time.

I replaced the start of EQLaunch with BootZones01.bat.

I have multiple versions of the second file BootZones02.bat, BootZones03.bat... to start different numbers of zones, additional quantities of zones... you get the idea.

Anyway, hope this gives you some ideas.