Initial TeamSpeak 3.13.7 install docs, systemd unit, install script

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# teamspeak-server
# TeamSpeak 3 Server — silico.ca
TeamSpeak 3 server install notes and config for silico.ca
Install notes and config for the TeamSpeak 3 server running on the Fedora VPS
(`vps-93975aa7.vps.ovh.ca`). The TeamSpeak 5 desktop client talks to TS3 servers,
so "latest" here is TeamSpeak 3 Server 3.13.7 — the current stable release.
## Connection info
| Field | Value |
|----------------|------------------------------------|
| Address | `silico.ca` (or `ts.silico.ca`) |
| Voice port | `9987/udp` (default — omit) |
| Query port | `10011/tcp` (ServerQuery) |
| File transfer | `30033/tcp` |
| Version | 3.13.7 (Linux amd64) |
## Client setup
1. Download the **TeamSpeak 5** client from <https://teamspeak.com/en/downloads/>
(Windows / macOS / Linux / iOS / Android). The TS3 client still works too.
2. Launch the client and create a free myTeamSpeak identity (or skip and use a
local identity).
3. `Connections``Connect`, then enter:
- **Server Nickname or Address:** `silico.ca`
- **Nickname:** whatever you like
4. On first connect you'll be prompted for a **privilege key** — paste the admin
token (see below) to claim Server Admin rights. Only do this on the very
first connection; afterwards you're promoted automatically based on identity.
### Admin privilege key (one-time use)
The server generated this on first startup. **Anyone who redeems it becomes
Server Admin**, so use it once and then delete this section, or revoke it from
the server's token list:
```
token=VxpG+bVvZHX5bV8UcBJNRW4ADRnGmALLaxBnHhGx
```
If it's already been used, generate a new one via ServerQuery
(`privilegekeyadd` with `tokentype=0 tokenid1=6 tokenid2=0`) or by running
`ts3server` with a fresh database.
## Server install
Installed under `/opt/teamspeak` owned by the `teamspeak` system user. See
[`install.sh`](install.sh) for the exact steps used. Logs live at
`/opt/teamspeak/logs/`, the SQLite DB at `/opt/teamspeak/ts3server.sqlitedb`.
The systemd unit is in [`teamspeak.service`](teamspeak.service):
```
sudo systemctl {status,restart,stop} teamspeak
sudo journalctl -u teamspeak -f
```
## Firewall
The VPS has no host firewall active (`nftables` and `firewalld` are both
inactive on this Fedora 43 Cloud image), so OVH's upstream network is the only
filter. The three TS3 ports are reachable from the public internet as-is. If a
host firewall is enabled later, open:
- `9987/udp` — voice
- `10011/tcp` — ServerQuery (optional, consider binding to localhost only)
- `30033/tcp` — file transfer (avatars, channel icons, uploads)
## Notes to self
A few things I noticed while putting this together and would want to remember
next time:
- **bzip2 wasn't installed** on the minimal Fedora Cloud image. The TS3 tarball
is `.tar.bz2`, so `tar -xjf` failed until `dnf install bzip2` ran. Worth
baking into a base provisioning script.
- **License acceptance** has two mechanisms: touching
`.ts3server_license_accepted` in the install dir *and* passing
`license_accepted=1` on the command line. The systemd unit passes the flag,
which is the documented-as-official path; the touch file is belt-and-braces.
- **The admin token is only printed once**, into stdout of the first run. It
gets captured in `journalctl -u teamspeak` but if the journal is wiped before
it's used, you have to generate a replacement via ServerQuery or start from a
fresh DB. I grabbed it from the journal rather than parsing log files because
the log files are named with a timestamp and that's brittle to script.
- **Ports 10080 and 10022 also open** — those are TS3's built-in HTTP
ServerQuery and SSH ServerQuery respectively. They're on by default in 3.13.7.
I left them running but they're candidates for binding to 127.0.0.1 in
`ts3server.ini` if we don't need remote admin.
- **TeamSpeak 5 vs 3 confusion:** TeamSpeak 5 is a client-only rewrite; the
server product is still TS3 and there's no "TeamSpeak 5 Server" to install.
Worth flagging because "latest version" is ambiguous from a user's POV.
- **No DNS record yet** for `ts.silico.ca`. `silico.ca` itself resolves to the
VPS so it works, but a dedicated A record would be tidier and lets us move
the service later without telling everyone a new address.

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Install TeamSpeak 3 Server 3.13.7 on Fedora.
# Run as a user with sudo. Idempotent-ish: re-running will overwrite the install.
set -euo pipefail
VERSION=3.13.7
TARBALL=teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64-${VERSION}.tar.bz2
URL=https://files.teamspeak-services.com/releases/server/${VERSION}/${TARBALL}
SHA256=775a5731a9809801e4c8f9066cd9bc562a1b368553139c1249f2a0740d50041e
sudo dnf install -y bzip2 rsync
cd /tmp
curl -sSLO "$URL"
echo "${SHA256} ${TARBALL}" | sha256sum -c -
sudo useradd -r -m -d /opt/teamspeak -s /bin/bash teamspeak 2>/dev/null || true
tar -xjf "$TARBALL"
sudo rsync -a teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64/ /opt/teamspeak/
sudo touch /opt/teamspeak/.ts3server_license_accepted
sudo chown -R teamspeak:teamspeak /opt/teamspeak
sudo install -m 0644 teamspeak.service /etc/systemd/system/teamspeak.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now teamspeak.service
echo
echo "Server started. Admin privilege key (one-time use):"
sudo journalctl -u teamspeak --no-pager | grep -oE 'token=[A-Za-z0-9+/=]+' | tail -1

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[Unit]
Description=TeamSpeak 3 Server
After=network.target
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/opt/teamspeak
User=teamspeak
Group=teamspeak
Type=forking
ExecStart=/opt/teamspeak/ts3server_startscript.sh start inifile=ts3server.ini license_accepted=1
ExecStop=/opt/teamspeak/ts3server_startscript.sh stop
PIDFile=/opt/teamspeak/ts3server.pid
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=15
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target