Field manual · Servers
Graceful server shutdown
corroborated
Short answer
Use graceful shutdown procedures rather than simply killing the process when possible.
Also: shutdown · server-admin
What to do
Bohemia documentation warns that graceful shutdown helps avoid negative side effects on player characters and server storage saving.
How it works
Use graceful shutdown procedures rather than simply killing the process when possible.
Evidence
Status: corroborated. Baseline from 1.29.x. Sources: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/DayZ:Server_Configuration. Unofficial field-manual pack (v24). Not Bohemia. Empty boxes stay empty.
Related
- cfggameplay.jsoncorroborated
- DayZ server configuration layerscorroborated
- Map/navigation server settingscorroborated
- Base damage server settingcorroborated
- Why Did I Spawn Here?verified official structure
- Persistence backupscorroborated