Active Players CLI command

[mjsweet130]

A nice to have would be the abilty to show logged in players ./windrose players or something like that to just verify no one is logged in before stopping the server.

I know i can do the same by having the game started up. Not sure if the windrose server allows any such command itself, or could be done via the login/logout logs?

[UberDudePL]

@mjsweet130 hey, will this work for you?

Best-effort player activity lines from recent logs

./windrose activity history

Structured join/leave events (JSONL)

./windrose activity events

[mjsweet130]

root@vmi1944543:~/windrose-dedicated-server-docker# ./windrose activity history

Shows data but the format makes it difficult to be useful at a quick look, it would be easier to check the Discord channel since its formatted in a friendly way.

the second command doesn't work at all for me:

root@vmi1944543:~/windrose-dedicated-server-docker# ./windrose activity events
[windrose] Scanning last 4000 container log lines for structured join/leave events
awk: line 8: syntax error at or near ,
awk: line 12: syntax error at or near if
awk: line 15: syntax error at or near }
root@vmi1944543:~/windrose-dedicated-server-docker#

[UberDudePL]

OK, I will take a look at this and add an option or a check for backup itself that it checks if someone is on. Good idea!

[UberDudePL]

Hey @mjsweet130!
Let me know if this is what you were looking for 😊

I haven’t added the windrose players command, but I made a few updates:

Modified the status command
Added activity status
Improved backup safety checks
You can check out all the changes here:
Release v1.6.0 🚀

[mjsweet130]

Maybe i did it wrong? Is this supposed to show players? There were 3 online when it was run

root@vmi1944543:~/windrose-dedicated-server-docker# ./windrose status
[windrose] Service status (prod mode):
NAME       IMAGE                                                        COMMAND                  SERVICE    CREATED        STATUS                 PORTS
windrose   ghcr.io/uberdudepl/windrose-dedicated-server-docker:v1.6.0   "/opt/windrose/scrip…"   windrose   11 hours ago   Up 4 hours (healthy)
root@vmi1944543:~/windrose-dedicated-server-docker#

[UberDudePL]

Hey, this looks like the old docker ps output. Please download serverctl.sh and backup.sh
This is how it should look like

[mjsweet130]

Got the new format now but I still get the awk errors, so i think thats why my player status is broken?

`root@vmi1944543:~/windrose-dedicated-server-docker# ./windrose status
awk: line 23: syntax error at or near ,
awk: line 26: syntax error at or near else
awk: line 32: syntax error at or near if
awk: line 35: syntax error at or near }

== Windrose Operator Status ==

[Runtime/Container]
mode: prod
service: windrose
container: windrose
running: yes
state: running
status: Up 53 minutes (healthy)
health: healthy

[Game/Activity]
online now: 0
players: (none)
last event: unknown

[Operations]
backup age: 6h ago
notifier: running (pid 1487)
provider: discord -> discord
root@vmi1944543:~/windrose-dedicated-server-docker#`

[UberDudePL]

Hey,
Thanks for reporting this.
The issue was caused by a mawk incompatibility in the activity parser used by ./windrose status (gawk-style match(..., ..., array) syntax).
I’ve updated the parser to POSIX-compatible AWK, so it now works correctly on both mawk and gawk.
Please pull the latest main (serverctl.sh) and try ./windrose status again.

Mate is playing and it is showing properly:

[mjsweet130]

Looks like that fixed it!

root@vmi1944543:~/windrose-dedicated-server-docker# ./windrose status

== Windrose Operator Status ==

[Runtime/Container]
  mode:              prod
  service:           windrose
  container:         windrose
  running:           yes
  state:             running
  status:            Up 2 hours (healthy)
  health:            healthy

[Game/Activity]
  online now:        1
  players:           Mighty McMuffinbeard
  last event:        2026-05-04T10:43:45Z

[Operations]
  backup age:        7h ago
  notifier:          running (pid 1487)
  provider:          discord -> discord
root@vmi1944543:~/windrose-dedicated-server-docker#

Would be helpful to also have the game version that is running on this status dashboard too. Just top of mind since they pushed an update this morning.

Thank you!!

[UberDudePL]

I will try to implement this, again no promises :)
Would be helpful to also have the game version that is running on this status dashboard too. Just top of mind since they pushed an update this morning.

[UberDudePL]

will this work? If yes, I will push to GitHub and you can download updated serverctl.sh. Or if you have and layout suggestion, I will correct before pushing.

[UberDudePL]

I've release 1.6.2 which adds the game version and testing if update needed is working correctly and new command share

[mjsweet130]

Works perfectly, thank you!