On 2026/09/23 03:10, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > Hi, > > Minecraft is a popular block-building mining crafting game with procedurally > generated worlds. This package contains the official multiplayer server for > Minecraft: Java Edition, currently published by Microsoft. > > > Included is a wrapper script that selects the right Java version and sets > some Java flags that otherwise the program whines about. > > I would have liked to provide an rc script, but Minecraft expects the > server to run in the foreground and accept commands on stdin. Without > an rc script, I felt it wasn't worth allocating a user for this either. > (FreeBSD disagrees: their port provides a user, and requires the server > be run as root so it can drop to that user.) > > ok? > > -- > Anthony J. Bentley
ok. The simplest way to run it automatically may be with an @reboot in the user crontab, starting it with "tmux new-session".
