Server Help Is it safe to stop a server with the kill command?

I have a personal server to play with friends on Ubuntu 16.04, and I'm wondering if using the "kill $pid" command is safe to use to shutdown the server. I know control + c works fine, but I'm trying to automate the process. When I stop the server with the kill command, there's nothing about a shutdown in the logs, as opposed to the control + c way of doing it.

Just wondering if there's a risk of my world going corrupt and losing data if I use kill instead of control + c.

Thanks!

 

Its possible it could corrupt things, though I don't think it is likely. Just do regular backups and you should be fine.

You could just automate the key-press too, unless you have it running the process in the background.

 

Ooh I didn't know that was possible!
How would I go about automating the key press?

 

If you want to automate the process, a rcon request "stop" is probably the cleanest way to stop a server.
I'm using this rcon client: https://gist.github.com/Dunto/e310c00e84b98e0e90dd
You will have to configure the client (check the readme) and starbound_server.config to accept rcon requests. Then a simple "python rcon_client.py stop" will gracefully shut your server down.

 

I don't know if Ubuntu has it, but I use "xdotool" with some Raspberries for automated page refresh for a specific project I did.

The above method would probably be better. Im no linux guru so I don't know exactly how a lot of it works.

 

Thanks so much, that worked beautifully! I'll probably try to use RCON with other servers now ^-^

 

I tried Sprvrn's solution and it worked really well, so I'll stick to that, but thanks a lot for the help!