OS X Minecraft server setup

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Preface.

This page will describe how i run my Minecraft servers.

The guide to YAMS.

Install Macports.

Installation is neatly described at the Macports install page.

Install tmux.

Use macPorts for the install process. It can be done like this at the time of writing they page.

  •  sudo port install tmux 
  • type in your password, and you should get something similar to this:
Password:
--->  Computing dependencies for tmux
--->  Dependencies to be installed: libevent
--->  Fetching archive for libevent
--->  Attempting to fetch libevent-2.0.22_1.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/libevent
--->  Attempting to fetch libevent-2.0.22_1.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/libevent
--->  Attempting to fetch libevent-2.0.22_1.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 from http://nue.de.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/libevent
--->  Fetching distfiles for libevent
--->  Attempting to fetch libevent-2.0.22-stable.tar.gz from http://skylink.dl.sourceforge.net/levent/libevent/libevent-2.0
--->  Verifying checksums for libevent                                               
--->  Extracting libevent
--->  Applying patches to libevent
--->  Configuring libevent
--->  Building libevent
--->  Staging libevent into destroot
--->  Installing libevent @2.0.22_1
--->  Activating libevent @2.0.22_1
--->  Cleaning libevent
--->  Fetching archive for tmux
--->  Attempting to fetch tmux-2.1_0.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/tmux
--->  Attempting to fetch tmux-2.1_0.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/tmux
--->  Attempting to fetch tmux-2.1_0.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 from http://nue.de.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/tmux
--->  Fetching distfiles for tmux
--->  Attempting to fetch tmux-2.1.tar.gz from http://lil.fr.distfiles.macports.org/tmux
--->  Verifying checksums for tmux
--->  Extracting tmux
--->  Configuring tmux
--->  Building tmux
--->  Staging tmux into destroot
--->  Installing tmux @2.1_0
--->  Activating tmux @2.1_0

If you want integration with system pasteboard consider installing port tmux-pasteboard as well

--->  Cleaning tmux
--->  Updating database of binaries
--->  Scanning binaries for linking errors               
--->  No broken files found.

User with limited privileges.

  1. Do it like this, but After "append Groups/_minecraft GroupMembership _minecraft"
    execute the ddcl command  passed /Users/_minecraft "YourTemporaryPassword"
  2. Exit dscl
  3. Stop following the guide when you get to "You might want something like this to prevent the user from showing up in the login dropdown:".
  4. Log out of OS X
  5. Log in as "_minecraft". Skip everything related to the first userlogin on the GUI.
  6. Log out.
  7. Log in as your normal user.
  8. Continue the user creation from "You might want something like this to prevent the user from showing up in the login dropdown:"
  9. STOP completely when you reach "Creating the user home". The rest is covered here after :-)

The above procedure IS complicated, but necessary if you want to run your Minecraft Server as secure as possible. The login to GUI, makes it possible to run scheduled tasks using OS X launchd / launchctl ;-) Finish up by deleting the following obsolete files and folders.

  1. cd ../_minecraft/
  2. sudo rm -R Desktop Documents Downloads Movies Music Pictures

BitBucket scripts for running a Minecraft server.

  1. Change to the new user : sudo su - _minecraft

TBD

https://[email protected]/fmjensen/vanilla-minecraft.git

About the server update script.

This script can update the server, IF it is not running... and since you have not downloaded any jar-files yet, i don't think it is running ;-)

You will need to manually obtain the following files:

  • bin/blah... (link to file)
  • eula.txt must contain three lines like:
By changing the setting below to TRUE you are indicating your agreement to our EULA (https://account.mojang.com/documents/minecraft_eula).
#Fri Apr 1 12:12:12 UTC 2015
eula=true
  1. Make sure you are logged in as the _minecraft user, and you are in the correct folder.

TBD

Edit configuration files.

XXX

Test if the server behaves and works as expected..

  1. Change to the new user

TBD

XXX.

XXX

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