Admin tools for the Hercules Ragnarok Online server emulator
Currently, Autolycus is a command-line Python utility that can run and stop your Hercules servers and perform various minor setup and maintenance tasks:
- Editing (almost) arbitrary configuration files, giving preference to their
importsiblings - Setting up database and inter-server configuration for Hercules
- Creating or editing accounts (for GM rights, say) directly in the database
- Checking the server status including the database connection
I am planning to expand this into a full web UI to both allow people to sign up for new accounts
without having to go through the silly _M/_S suffix thing and manage the server more generally -
a web frontend for restarting the servers, editing accounts/characters, modifying the server
configuration, etc.
There's a whole bunch of functionality already. Best way to find out what Autolycus can do is to run
autolycus.py --help. Here's what that'll tell you:
usage: autolycus.py [-h] [-p HERCULES_PATH] [-r]
{info,start,stop,restart,sql_upgrades,setup_all,setup_db,setup_interserver,account,import_sql}
...
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-p HERCULES_PATH, --hercules_path HERCULES_PATH
The path containing the Hercules installation to
control. (default: .)
-r, --autorestart Automatically restart servers when making
configuration changes. (default: False)
Available commands:
{info,start,stop,restart,sql_upgrades,setup_all,setup_db,setup_interserver,account,import_sql}
info Output server status and version information and exit.
start Start the game servers.
stop Stop the game servers.
restart Stop and restart the game servers.
sql_upgrades Run any SQL upgrades needed.
setup_all Set up database and inter-server config and run SQL
upgrades.
setup_db Set up the database server configuration.
setup_interserver Set up the inter-server communications configuration.
account Edit or create an account on the server.
import_sql Import an SQL file into the database.
To get more help for any of the commands, run: autolycus.py [command] --help
I was trying to think of a nicer name for this project than "hercules-admin" and started reading up on the myth of Hercules. Autolycus was a robber who taught Hercules to wrestle, which is to say, feasibly the one person in Greece capable of wrestling Hercules.
Also, I like Bruce Campbell, so once I stumbled on "Autolycus taught Hercules to wrestle" the decision came easy.
