Downloads the release for this machine and verifies its checksum (or builds
from source), creates the service user and folders, writes and opens the
environment file, installs the hardened unit and prints the first-run admin
password. Re-running upgrades; --uninstall [--purge] removes it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Watches any number of ARK:SE servers (RCON for players and chat, the query
port for map, version and player cap), records joins, leaves, chat and an
audit trail, and keeps a player database across servers.
Control: save, broadcast, chat, whisper, kick, time of day, MOTD, wild dino
wipe, a raw console with history and macros, restarts with timed warnings and
a world save, optional start command and auto-start. Bans are kept by
Megalodon: timed, cluster-wide and re-enforced when the player returns.
Automation: schedules (every N or at times of day), Discord/ntfy/webhook
notifications, welcome message, chat word filter.
Access: viewer, moderator and admin roles, API tokens, Prometheus metrics.
cmd/fakeark simulates a server for trying it out.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
VeillaxandClaude Sonnet 5.5