Documentation V2 Server Installation Linux

Download & Extract

The server package is usually a TAR archive, which can be extracted everywhere. This documentation uses /opt/ts3video as base directory.

mkdir /opt/ts3video
cd /opt/ts3video
wget DOWNLOAD_URL_HERE
tar -xf server-<version>.tar
cd server-<version>

Start the server

It's not recommended to use this way in production. Live systems should always use the Windows-Service/Linux-Daemon way.

/opt/ts3video/server-<version>/videoserver.sh start --config "/opt/ts3video/default.ini"

Run as Linux Daemon (Debian - SysV)

The server comes with a videoserver-initd.sh script, which makes it possible to control the server process in background.

Note: You have to be logged in as root.

1. Create system user and set permissions

useradd --home-dir /opt/ts3video --system --shell /bin/sh --user-group ts3video
chown -R ts3video:ts3video /opt/ts3video

2. Prepare the start-up script

Open the file videoserver-initd.sh for editing and update the variables on top to fit your system.

USER="ts3video"
WORKDIR="/opt/ts3video/server-<version>"
CONFIG="${WORKDIR}/default.ini"

3. Install the script as start-up script

You can either copy or link the script into /etc/init.d/ before updating your run levels with it.

cp /opt/ts3video/server-<version>/videoserver-initd.sh /etc/init.d/videoserver
update-rc.d videoserver defaults

4. Test it

That's it! You can now test it with the following commands.

/etc/init.d/videoserver start
/etc/init.d/videoserver stop

You should also reboot and test whether the videoserver has been started automatically.

The running process name may be different than expected. You shouldn't see a videoserver process. The running process name will be ld-linux.so or similar.

Why is that? The server is shipped with its own set of common libraries and a dynamic library loader because of portability issues. This might change in future releases. On some systems it's possible to run the videoserver binary directly (e.g. Ubuntu 14.04).