[Tutorial] Teamspeak 3 Server installation

Thanks for the tutorial it is great!

Only problem i have is that after a reboot and use the

/etc/init.d/teamspeak status

command it returns

server appears to have died

Just wondering if you know what might be causing this?

Thanks for your help

Have you checked if your teamspeak server runs after you restarted? Or just tried to get the status via console?

Thanks for the reply guys, I will have a look at the start script in a minute and copy it below however when i manually start the server it gives me this messaege:

root@openmediavault:~# /etc/init.d/teamspeak start
ts3server.pid found, but no server running. Possibly your previously started server crashed
Please view the logfile for details.
Starting the TeamSpeak 3 server
TeamSpeak 3 server started, for details please view the log file

Seems a bit odd. Where will i find the log to look at as suggested?

I have also had another look at my start-up script

#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          ts3server
# Required-Start:
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start:
# Default-Stop:
# X-Interactive:
# Short-Description: Teamspeak 3 Server
### END INIT INFO


# User which will run the Teamspeak-Server
USER=ts3


# The installation directory of the Teamspeak-Server
DIR=/home/ts3/server


# Run the start script
su -c "cd $DIR && $DIR/ts3server_startscript.sh $1" - $USER

Does that seem correct? I have made the server symlink which shows when i ssh in as ts3 user and use the 'ln' command.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help again!

David, I hadn't really looked at this before but do you think that init script is best???? I looked around a bit and found this init script. You would have to adjust it a bit but it seems better.

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          teamspeak
# Required-Start:    networking
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      S 0 1 6
# Short-Description: TeamSpeak Server Daemon
# Description:       Starts/Stops/Restarts the TeamSpeak Server Daemon
### END INIT INFO


set -e


PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DESC="TeamSpeak Server"
NAME=teamspeak
USER=teamspeak
DIR=/opt/ts3
DAEMON=$DIR/ts3server_startscript.sh
#PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME


# Gracefully exit if the package has been removed.
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0


cd $DIR
sudo -u teamspeak ./ts3server_startscript.sh $1

Hi my teamspeak3 server does no seem to start at boot - how do i edit the script? Is the second script more successfull?

Thank you for a great guide

I have been running my TS3 server when I first started using OMV, I also use an add on that gives me more control, would you like to look at my init script and compare with yours. I also have a server update script that can be added as a cron job (I run it manually) it checks for an update for the server software and if found sends a message to the users on the server to warn them the TS server is about to restart to apply the update.

I will post it later today as OMV is busy copying files to new aufs partitions. My TS server is in the same folder structure so paths should not be an issue, I do however run as root and not as another user but will change that and test it before posting script.

I have installed teamspeak 3 in /opt/teamspeak3. I edited the /etc/init.d/teamspeak script to:

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          teamspeak
# Required-Start:    networking
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      S 0 1 6
# Short-Description: TeamSpeak Server Daemon
# Description:       Starts/Stops/Restarts the TeamSpeak Server Daemon
### END INIT INFO


set -e


PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DESC="TeamSpeak Server"
NAME=teamspeak
USER=<my teamspeak user>
DIR=/opt/teamspeak3
DAEMON=$DIR/ts3server_startscript.sh
#PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME


# Gracefully exit if the package has been removed.
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0


cd $DIR
sudo -u $USER ./ts3server_startscript.sh $1

Edit <my teamspeak user> to whatever username you have created to run teamspeak under. Remember the user needs to have rw rights to /opt/teamspeak3
After a

update-rc.d teamspeak defaults

everything is working.

The error about the teamspeak process that seems to be running when the status parameter is issued is because the first instance of ts3 after install doesn't get stopped but keeps running in the background. Get it's processnumber with

bps -A | grep ts

and kill it with

kill processnumber

After this start, stop an status parameters work correctly.

We should have a plugin for TeamSpeak3. The new version is nice.

Unlicensed:

TeamSpeak is provided free of charge for non-commercial groups or individuals who wish to host their own TeamSpeak servers in a limited capacity. To use TeamSpeak without a license, just download and install the TeamSpeak server -- no signup is required. Unlicensed use of TeamSpeak 2 is limited to ten virtual servers with up to 1000 combined slots, while unlicensed use of TeamSpeak 3 is limited to one virtual server with up to 32 slots.

Unlicensed use is ideal for: Friends & family, small gaming clans/guilds, online study groups, church groups.

I don't see how there would be an issue. This would not be commercial use. Have you used Mumble Ryeco?? Sub likes it I think. I've used TeamSpeak2 in the past and TS3 looks really nice.

PS- I'm on David's server now.

There is no rush. I just have no experience with Mumble. But TS is excellent in my opinion. If we could work it out over time would be nice. Sub talked about Mumble but did not say much about it. Sub, why don't you tell us how it compares in quality.

PS- this is like that Police song, "So Lonely". All alone on David's TS server.