Tutorials/Server startup script

This is an example of possible Minecraft server startup and maintenance script for Linux distros.

Script

 * 1) !/bin/bash
 * 2) /etc/init.d/minecraft
 * 3) version 0.3.2 2011-01-27 (YYYY-MM-DD)

### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides:  minecraft # Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs # Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs # Should-Start:  $network # Should-Stop:   $network # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop:  0 1 6 # Short-Description:   Minecraft server # Description:   Starts the minecraft server ### END INIT INFO

SERVICE='minecraft_server.jar' USERNAME="minecraft" MCPATH='/home/minecraft/minecraft' INVOCATION='java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui' BACKUPPATH='/media/remote.share/minecraft.backup'
 * 1) Settings

ME=`whoami` as_user { if [ "$ME" == "$USERNAME" ] ; then bash -c "$1" else su - $USERNAME -c "$1" fi }

mc_start { if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep -v -i SCREEN | grep $SERVICE > /dev/null then echo "Tried to start but $SERVICE was already running!" else echo "$SERVICE was not running... starting." cd $MCPATH as_user "cd $MCPATH && screen -dmS minecraft $INVOCATION" sleep 7 if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep -v -i SCREEN | grep $SERVICE > /dev/null then echo "$SERVICE is now running." else echo "Could not start $SERVICE." fi fi }

mc_saveoff { if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep -v -i SCREEN | grep $SERVICE > /dev/null then echo "$SERVICE is running... suspending saves" as_user "screen -p 0 -S minecraft -X eval 'stuff \"say SERVER BACKUP STARTING. Server going readonly...\"\015'" as_user "screen -p 0 -S minecraft -X eval 'stuff \"save-off\"\015'" as_user "screen -p 0 -S minecraft -X eval 'stuff \"save-all\"\015'" sync sleep 10 else echo "$SERVICE was not running. Not suspending saves." fi }

mc_saveon { if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep -v -i SCREEN | grep $SERVICE > /dev/null then echo "$SERVICE is running... re-enabling saves" as_user "screen -p 0 -S minecraft -X eval 'stuff \"save-on\"\015'" as_user "screen -p 0 -S minecraft -X eval 'stuff \"say SERVER BACKUP ENDED. Server going read-write...\"\015'" else echo "$SERVICE was not running. Not resuming saves." fi }

mc_stop { if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep -v -i SCREEN | grep $SERVICE > /dev/null then echo "$SERVICE is running... stopping." as_user "screen -p 0 -S minecraft -X eval 'stuff \"say SERVER SHUTTING DOWN IN 10 SECONDS. Saving map...\"\015'" as_user "screen -p 0 -S minecraft -X eval 'stuff \"save-all\"\015'" sleep 10 as_user "screen -p 0 -S minecraft -X eval 'stuff \"stop\"\015'" sleep 7 else echo "$SERVICE was not running." fi       if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep -v -i SCREEN | grep $SERVICE > /dev/null then echo "$SERVICE could not be shut down... still running." else echo "$SERVICE is shut down." fi }

mc_update { if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep -v -i SCREEN | grep $SERVICE > /dev/null then echo "$SERVICE is running! Will not start update." else MC_SERVER_URL=http://minecraft.net/`wget -q -O - http://www.minecraft.net/download.jsp | grep minecraft_server.jar\ | cut -d \" -f 2`   as_user "cd $MCPATH && wget -q -O $MCPATH/minecraft_server.jar.update $MC_SERVER_URL"    if [ -f $MCPATH/minecraft_server.jar.update ]    then      as_user "mv $MCPATH/minecraft_server.jar.update $MCPATH/minecraft_server.jar"      echo "Minecraft successfully updated."    else      echo "Minecraft update could not be downloaded."    fi  fi }

mc_backup { if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep -v -i SCREEN | grep $SERVICE > /dev/null then echo "Backing up minecraft data" if [ -d $BACKUPPATH/world_`date "+%m.%d.%Y"` ] then for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 do       if [ -d $BACKUPPATH/world_`date "+%m.%d.%Y"`-$i ] then continue else as_user "cd $MCPATH && cp -r world $BACKUPPATH/world_`date "+%m.%d.%Y"`-$i" break fi     done else as_user "cd $MCPATH && cp -r world $BACKUPPATH/world_`date "+%m.%d.%Y"`" fi   echo "Backing up the minecraft server executable" if [ -f "$BACKUPPATH/minecraft_server_`date "+%m.%d.%Y"`.jar" ] then for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 do       if [ -f "$BACKUPPATH/minecraft_server_`date "+%m.%d.%Y"`-$i.jar" ] then continue else as_user "cd $MCPATH && cp minecraft_server.jar \"$BACKUPPATH/minecraft_server_`date "+%m.%d.%Y"`-$i.jar\"" break fi     done else as_user "cd $MCPATH && cp minecraft_server.jar \"$BACKUPPATH/minecraft_server_`date "+%m.%d.%Y"`.jar\"" fi fi  echo "Backup complete" }
 * 1)    echo "$SERVICE is running! Will not start backup."
 * 2)  else

case "$1" in start)    mc_start    ;;  stop) mc_stop ;; restart)    mc_stop    mc_start    ;;  update) mc_stop mc_backup mc_update mc_start ;; backup)    mc_saveoff    mc_backup    mc_saveon    ;;  status) if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep -v -i SCREEN | grep $SERVICE > /dev/null then echo "$SERVICE is running." else echo "$SERVICE is not running." fi   ;;
 * 1) Start-Stop here

*) echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/minecraft {start|stop|update|backup|status|restart}"  exit 1  ;; esac

exit 0

Requirements

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Installation
Use your favorite editor to create file called minecraft in /etc/init.d/ and paste the script above in that file.

Edit the USERNAME and MCPATH -variables according to your setup. If you use a wrapper script, change INVOCATION to start it instead of starting the server directly.

Make sure the newly created file has required permissions You can set the permissions by running: chmod 755 /etc/init.d/minecraft

Then run (on debian based distros) update-rc.d minecraft defaults to add required symbolic links. Note: your system will most likely warn you that the script does not meet all requirements. The script will however work.

You can also setup an entry in your [crontab] to backup the server with: /etc/init.d/minecraft backup

Uninstall
(In debian based linux distro) update-rc.d -f minecraft remove

Usage
/etc/init.d/minecraft start stop, restart, backup or update