https://github.com/greg-kennedy/minecraft-server

Scripts to help stand up a vanilla Minecraft server
https://github.com/greg-kennedy/minecraft-server

minecraft minecraft-server systemd systemd-service systemd-unit

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Scripts to help stand up a vanilla Minecraft server

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/greg-kennedy/minecraft-server
• Owner: greg-kennedy
• License: unlicense
• Created: 2017-07-28T14:58:14.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-07-28T15:28:14.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-05T16:47:51.760Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: minecraft, minecraft-server, systemd, systemd-service, systemd-unit
• Language: Perl
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• Size: 3.91 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# minecraft-server

Greg Kennedy 

A collection of scripts to help stand up a vanilla Minecraft server

## Description

This repository is a collection of tools to help start and manage a vanilla Minecraft server.

## Installation

* Start from an existing Ubuntu installation

* Become root (`sudo su`)

* Install Dependencies

  * Install `openjdk8` and `perl` from apt

  * Create a user "minecraft" and group "minecraft", no password, home directory `/home/minecraft` and login shell `/bin/false`

* Install server, server wrapper and announce script

  * `cd /home/minecraft`

  * Get the latest Minecraft server jar and put that in this folder

  * Place `announce.pl` and `minecraft-server.sh` in here

  * `chown -R minecraft:minecraft .` from within /home/minecraft

* Install systemd unit files

  * `cd /etc/systemd/system`

  * Place `minecraft-server.service` and `minecraft-announce.service` here

  * `systemctl enable minecraft-server.service`

  * `systemctl enable minecraft-announce.service`

 * Reboot, or just start the services

## Usage

To change the server name that appears in LAN clients, edit `announce.pl` and change the value for $server_name

When the server is running, you can interact with it by writing data to the named pipe.  By default, this is at `/tmp/minecraft-stdin` (edit `minecraft-server.sh` to change these locations).  For example,

    echo "say hi" > /tmp/minecraft-stdin

will print "[Server] hi" to all connected players.  You can also monitor server status by reading `/tmp/minecraft-stdout`.

Connecting these files to a web UI is left as an exercise to the reader.