Learn to Program with Minecraft Plugins, 2nd Edition

Running Remotely

There’s a slight hitch with running a script like start_minecraft when you’re logged in via ssh. As soon as you log out, the script will be killed. That’s not very helpful in a server environment.

Fortunately, you can use a command named screen to keep Java running even though you’ve logged out.^[53] It takes an argument string of -d -m -S followed by a name for your server session. We’ll use mcserver to name the session, so the new server-style startup script will look like this:

(Remember, start_minecraft needs to be executable; be sure to do a chmod +x start_minecraft if you get a “permission denied” ...