Minetest Startup Scripts (2.3)

Startup scripts for the Minetest sandbox software - uses the "screen" command to manage session. This also restarts the Minetest process if it crashes.

Official support sites: Official Github Repo - Official Forum - Official Download Area

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These start up the Minetest server at boot time with a "screen" process.

1. Copy minetest into /home/mtowner/bin - make sure it is executable

2. Copy startminetest into /home/mtowner/minetest - make sure it is executable

3. Put @reboot /home/mtowner/bin/minetest start into your crontab

4. Put @reboot /home/mtowner/bin/startrelay into your crontab

5. Run the relay setup: pip install aiohttp pip install discord.py

   cd /home/mtowner unzip MinetestStartup/MyRelay.zip cd /home/mtowner/minetest/mods/discordmt vi relay.conf # Set the discord bot info where needed Activate the bot with: https://discordapp.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=CLIENTID&scope=bot Run startrelay Restart the minetest server, and enable the discordmt

When you want to view the Minetest console, just enter "screen -r" in your shell.

To disconnect from the Minetest console just press CTRL-A CTRL-D. This will leave it running and you can reconnect to it again.

I have only tested this on a Ubuntu 16.04 server...

If you want to turn off the server respawning type "touch /home/mtowner/minetest/nostart". To reenable it type "rm /home/mtowner/minetest/nostart".

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Note: If you don't already have the "screen" tool installed you will need to install it by "sudo apt-get install screen".