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I am running a little minecraft server.

I want Lubuntu to execute the following script when the server boots up. NOT on login, and NOT on restart (unless it's starting up of course).

The script is currently located in:

/home/mc/server/craftbukkit.sh

I can manually launch the script by just going into the dir and typing ./craftbukkit.sh. But I want to fire off the script when the machine boots.

I run a minecraft server from a debian terminal, and this is probably the wrong way to do it, but it works. First, sudo apt-get install screen, then save the following script as /etc/init.d/minecraft:

#!/bin/bash

case "$1" in

  start)

    screen -S minecraft /home/mc/server/craftbukkit.sh

    echo "Server started on screen minecraft"

    ;;

  stop)

    screen -X -S minecraft kill

    echo "Server shutting down"

    ;;

  *)

    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/minecraft {start|stop}"

    exit 1

    ;;

esac



exit 0

Now, run the following commands as root:

update-rc.d -f minecraft defaults

This will make the minecraft server run in the background when the system boots. To view the console, run screen -x minecraft in a terminal. To quit the console, press Ctrl+A and then D.

On latest Ubuntu, you should do it like this, create /etc/init/bukkit.conf (whatever .conf),

description     "Some java server"

author          "Moi <moi@x.com>"



start on runlevel [2345]   # change start / stop level if needed

stop on runlevel [016]



pre-start script

   echo "script is abort to start"

end script



exec /path/to/script param1 param2



post-start script

   echo "script is started" # if you needed any post-start hack

end script

More information here.

in ubuntu/lubuntu there should be a menu item called "startup applications". On my ubuntu server it is under the 'system > preferences > startup applications' menu. That is in gnome but it should be smiler. Choose the add button and give it a name like minecraft and make sure the box it checked for it to start.

this may not be a hard core linux solution but it provides an easy way to see if it is enabled and to disable/enable it when you want to.

Docker I prefer to create Dockerfile and run it with --restart=always tag

If you want to run your shell script on boot
Then use unix's crontab It's very easy to use & you can configure in minutes

1. 
   

   Edit crontab run the following replacing the "USER" with your desired runtime user for the node process. If you choose a different user other than yourself, you will have to run this with sudo.

   
   
   

   $ crontab -u USER -e

   
   


2. 
   

   Once in the editor add the following line:

   
   
   

   @reboot sh /home/mc/server/craftbukkit.sh

   
   


3. 
   

   Save & confirm file is saved by check command of #1 again

   
   
   

   Note: In my opinion, you should use the full path in crontab file to prevent issues

   
   

You can refer this URL reference
Ubuntu Cron HowTo