v0.5

Sinners DEV. Artifact Manager

Sinners DEV. Artifact Manager is a small Linux CLI tool for FiveM/RedM FXServer.

The tool helps you detect existing server installations, update FXServer artifacts safely, and optionally clear the cache after an update.

It is mainly designed for Pterodactyl servers, but it also works with manual Linux installations.

In short:

sdev adoptserver
sdev install-artifact --clean

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Why Linux?

For FXServer hosting, Linux is usually the better choice than Windows.

Linux is lighter, more efficient, and much easier to automate on servers. Especially when working with Pterodactyl, Docker, shell scripts, and server maintenance, Linux feels much more natural.

Windows can work, but for production game servers Linux is usually cleaner, more stable, and easier to maintain.

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Quick start

cd /var/lib/pterodactyl/volumes/YOUR-SERVER-ID
sdev adoptserver
sdev status
sdev install-artifact --clean

After the update, the tool asks:

Clear cache folder 'cache' now? [Y/n]

Press Enter or Y to clear the cache.
Press n to skip cache clearing.

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Important commands

sdev adoptserver
sdev status
sdev artifact-info
sdev install-artifact --clean
sdev clear-cache
sdev list
sdev update

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Safety

For a correctly detected Pterodactyl installation, an artifact update only deletes:

alpine/

These files and folders are not deleted:

resources/
txData/
server.cfg
sdev.json
sdev.lock.json
cache/

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Short version

Adopt a server:

sdev adoptserver

Update artifact:

sdev install-artifact --clean

Confirm cache clearing:

Clear cache folder 'cache' now? [Y/n]

Check status:

sdev status

Linux servers, clean artifacts, less stress.
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