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minecraft-systemd

[Unit]
Description=Minecraft Server
Wants=network.target
After=network.target

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/minecraft/minecraft
Type=forking
Nice=5
User=minecraft
Group=minecraft
ExecStart=/usr/bin/screen -dmS mc /usr/bin/java -Xmx1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui 

ExecStop=/usr/bin/screen -S mc -X eval 'stuff "say SERVER SHUTTING DOWN. Saving map..."\\015'
ExecStop=/usr/bin/screen -S mc -X eval 'stuff "save-all"\\015'
ExecStop=/usr/bin/screen -S mc -X eval 'stuff "stop"\\015'
ExecStop=/bin/sleep 2

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

How-to

  • Create a minecraft user and group
  • Put put the mincraft server in that user's $HOME/minecraft
  • Make sure screen is installed.
  • put this file in /lib/systemd/system/minecraft.service
  • run systemctl enable mincraft to have it start on boot.

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