Minecraft tmux service

With these files a minecraft server can be started in a tmux session via systemd. This allows to easily start and stop the server while still being able to connect to its console.

Requirements

tmux needs to be installed on the system.

The script was written for the following settings. If any of those don't match your system, you might have to change the script accordingly.

• A user named minecraft exists on the system. This user will run the minecraft server.
• The users home directory is /var/minecraft
• The server files and its working directory match the home directory (/var/minecraft)
• The server is a spigot server (although other minecraft servers or a vanilla server should work too)

Installation

• Place the service.sh file in the home directory of the minecraft user.
• Change the owner of the script to minecraft and make sure it is executable.
• Copy the minecraft.service file to /lib/systemd/system/ and reload the systemd daemon

systemctl daemon-reload

Usage

You can now start the server via systemd:

systemctl start minecraft

To attach to the tmux session that the service is running in, run:

/var/minecraft/service.sh attach