YEEEESSS!!! THIS!!! Thank you! I’ve been able to hobble together a script now that I have a Synology automated task calling early each morning after world backups are complete. I’m so very grateful to you all. I’ve learned a lot. A proper “stop” is being issues now which reduces the chance of world corruption which would make my family very very grumpy.

Here’s the script just in case someone finds themselves in a similar situation as me. This is not my wheelhouse and it’s not pretty. I know it can be better, but I’ve spent too much time on this as it is and need to go fix a washing machine now. Ugh…

#!/bin/bash

# Define the countdown duration in seconds
countdown_duration=20

# Function to send a message to the Docker container
send_cmd() {
  cmd="$1"
  sudo sh -c "echo '$cmd' | socat EXEC:'docker attach mcbe-world',pty STDIN"
}

# Announce
announce_text="Daily server restart commencing in $countdown_duration seconds..."
send_cmd "say $announce_text"

# Perform the countdown
for ((i = $countdown_duration; i >= 1; i--)); do
  #echo "Restaring in $i seconds"
  countdown_text="Restarting in $i seconds"
  send_cmd "say $countdown_text"
  sleep 1
done

# Gracefully shutdown server
#  Note: stopping forces the mcbe container to restart on it's own. 
#  Not sure why that's the case, but it's the end result I want...
send_cmd "stop"

P.S. I really need to figure out how to get the RCON solution working because that would be a more elegant way to handle things.

P.P.S Example run (yes, the timing and spelling were updated after this screenshot 😁)

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Yeah. I see this as being a problem. I was curious how it comes into play.

The popularity of a show really needs to be taken into account.

Well,RCON has not fared well. Afaik, I’ve set things up correctly but the client I’m using (mcrcon) keep returning Error 111: Connection refused.

• This post got me to direct things to the right IP which I could get with docker inspect -f '{{range.NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}}' mcbe-world.
• docker port mcbe-world shows that the rcon port is open
• the server.properties files for the mc server has the relevant rcon lines

This looked so promising.

Via SSH, I can indeed use docker attach and from within I can issue a stop for MC server. Works fine.

However, the Synology task scheduler via DSM doesn’t seem to be able to similarly attach and then issue the stop command. I get this back via email (for when a scheduled task fails):

Task Scheduler has completed a scheduled task.

Task: MC Graceful Restart Start time: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 17:19:41 -0500 Stop time: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 17:19:42 -0500 Current status: 127 (Interrupted) Standard output/error:

the input device is not a TTY /bin/bash: line 1: stop: command not found

Ooh. I was not aware of the RCON protocol. Looking into now. This may be the exact thing I need. Thanks for the lead.

docker exec mcbe-world just gives access to the container so commands can be executed. /stop is a specific command for the MC server running in that container. The process is already running and I am trying to figure out how to issue a command to it… and the other comment in this post referencing “rcon” might be a solution…

it’s a ridiculous loophole. They are literally saying, “I have this thing that’s so valuable, but I ‘accidentally’ threw it away, it’s worthless now, I need to mark this down as a loss.” They are destroying their own products for tax purposes.

This. ☝

😭

If this is accurate, then it would make a hell of a lot more sense. But… it sounds like these “residuals” need to be payed out differently because this sucks for consumers and… honestly… I think for those that poured themselves into making the content in the first place.

But imagine Willow to be entirely Disney. I imagine the tax benefit of cutting it is the best answer to my question, but hell… gah

Please no. Even after ripping all my music, I still have a one foot thick ream of CDs that I wish I could part with but my partner would murder me over.

And this is so true. Both the ripping your own content and then the DRM implications of it all. And all so frustrating.

And here I just want to buy things. And keep them. In my preferred format. Forever. The end.

Yes, this is what I was thinking was the matter. And someone else in this thread posted at a guardian link saying something to the same effect. It’s still mind-boggling to me that to save money the answer is to remove everything completely. It feels like these big production companies are failing people and their use of the tax system is furthering that so they can save money. It just seems strange that they have to axe a show from existence to be able to prove it as a loss to the government.

Hot garbage they spent a whole lot of money on that could still be served without ever showing on the main title screens. They clearly had to have made a determination that the show would cost them more to keep it available, even though it doesn’t entirely make sense to me how that all works.

😖

This makes more sense if true.

This is what I had heard at some point. It’s a tax thing. Even though there are no details, it makes more sense to me now. Reduced value == less taxes. Would love to hear the guts if this… but also at the same time pulling out hair. So much blood, sweat, and tears going into producing something only having it then wiped from existence. smh.

And I hadn’t realized that Westworld was axed too. For a show that made such a huge hubbub and then to remove it entirely?! Ugh

Not physical media again. Haha. We got rid of all our DVDs to trim down on all the…stuff. No more stuffffff.

But it’s that or someone hosts it, which costs money and circle around again…

Indeed.

Btw, was Scrubs removed or the music replaced? I don’t even know where to find it now.