itzg
Refresh whitelist when detected change to whitelist file
Enhancement Type
Improve an existing feature
Describe the enhancement
Currently when adding players to the whitelist file provided to the WHITELIST_FILE environment variable the change isn't reflected till the container restarts which kinda sucks because to whitelist new players you have to basically kick any currently logged in players.
I propose using something akin to incrond to monitor changes in the whitelist file provided to the WHITELIST_FILE environment variable and when a change is detected running the relevant script based on the EXISTING_WHITELIST_FILE environment variable then sending an rcon command the server to reload the whitelist.
I prefer not to run additional processes inside of the container. The automation you described can be performed by a sidecar container via rcon.
That's understandable, I might see if I can make a sidecar container to do that
You might be able to draw some inspiration from the mc-backup container since it has similar cross container rcon interactions
https://github.com/itzg/docker-mc-backup/blob/master/scripts/opt/backup-loop.sh