autostart

[kotovasia5120]

Hello. How to make the server autostart when you turn on the computer?
As I understand it, I need to make a separate service with this code.

[Unit]
Description=Minecraft server

[Service]
User=minecraft
Group=minecraft
ExecStart=mscs start spigot
ExecStop=mscs stop spigot
ExecStop=sleep 10

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Or are there other ways?

[zanix]

The install process should create the service for you.

However, if you are doing the manual installation, part of those instructions includes adding the service file.

[kotovasia5120]

I mean the server itself, not MSCS.

[zanix]

Ah, I misunderstood.
We have a template for creating a service for individual servers. I don't think the documentation has info on using this template but it's in the PR #297.

Maybe I should update the docs.

[zanix]

Also, you will want to disable the default service file since that would start all active servers.

sudo systemctl disable mscs.service

[sandain]

As @zanix mentions, if you are trying to autostart/autostop a single world server at a time and use systemd, you can use the service template that is already installed using our normal install method.

First, disable the default service that will start/stop all world servers:

sudo systemctl disable mscs

Next, enable the service for each of your worlds individually:

sudo systemctl enable mscs@world1
sudo systemctl enable mscs@world2
sudo systemctl enable mscs@spigot

Finally, start the service for each of your worlds individually:

sudo systemctl start mscs@world1
sudo systemctl start mscs@world2
sudo systemctl start mscs@spigot

[kotovasia5120]

Thanks, this was missing from the documentation.

[sandain]

MSCS can be auto started with a server using any number of methods.

• As @zanix mentioned, our installation documentation mentions how to automatically or manually install MSCS so that it uses either the systemd or SysV-style (e.g. upstart) methods of starting at boot. If you are using a Linux installation that uses systemd, it would be easiest to use that method. Likewise, if you are using an older Linux install or one that avoids systemd, the old SysV-style method still works.
• However, I bet you could also get it running on boot by simply adding something like mscs start to your .bashrc file so that it starts when you login to the computer.