Some help for a new linux user.

[Amarog]

Well, I've been running a minecraft server for some time on a Mac mini, using OS X. I decided last week to put together a new linux machine. That said here's my problem.

linux is somewhat new to me. I've followed some tutorials and got everything a I need to start the minecraft server, I installed java7 and then I got here.

I adjusted the config.example file to my needs and then I was looking for the next steps and that was the symlinking...

It says:
sudo ln -s ~/minecraft-init/minecraft /etc/init.d/minecraft
chmod 755 ~/minecraft-init/minecraft
sudo update-rc.d minecraft defaults

u tried that but that gives me not that much so I've changed it somewhat. (my server is located in home/user/Minecraft/Server1)
sudo ln -s home/user/Minecraft/Server1/minecraft /etc/init.d/minecraft/minecraft (<-- Got no error)
chmod 755 home/user/Minecraft/Server1/minecraft (<-- Got no error)

But then
sudo update-rc.d minecraft defaults gives this error:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/minecraft: file does not exist

but if u go and have a look in /eetc/indit.d/ the minecraft link is there (it's an orphan symlink if I'm right)

Can somebody help me out with a step by step tutorial on what I should do, type in, ...
Every help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

[jbondhus]

Hmm, which linux distribution are you running? For setting the locale, I would recommend doing the following (do the first one as root):

apt-get install locales && dpkg re-configure locales

also, try adding the following line to ~/.bashrc

LANG = "en_US"

[Amarog]

I'm running ubuntu server 12.10 if i'm not wrong. The problem is not the local thingie, that I fixed allready. It's that i'm a bit lost in the installation of this startup file on linux. Starting with this:

sudo ln -s ~/minecraft-init/minecraft /etc/init.d/minecraft
chmod 755 ~/minecraft-init/minecraft
sudo update-rc.d minecraft defaults

should I just copy paste this or do i have to place instead of "~/minecraft-init/minecraft" the location of the "minecraft" file ?

[jbondhus]

You should replace ~/minecraft-init/minecraft with the location of the minecraft file (in the first and second commands). What these three commands do are link the minecraft init script to /etc/init.d/minecraft, which is located in the startup folder, and then tell the system to start the server upon start-up and stop it upon shutdown.

[Amarog]

Ok, thanks for the quick help. I'll try that out!

[Amarog]

Well thanks again for the help. The server is running! I was just wondering if I type screen -r minecraft I always get There is no screen to be resumed matching minecraft?

Another thing, I'm using Multiverse, So If I create a new world for instance "FUN" this will be directly generated in the map "minecraft" do I need to put him in "minecraft/worlds" to?

Greetz

[jbondhus]

Did you try installing screen? Run the following commands as root:

apt-get update
apt-get install screen

[Amarog]

I had not but after installing it's just the same... I can start it by just entering screen (I did removed the annoying startup message) then I've got a blank screen... But I can't switch...

if i do screen -r I get this:

root@Server:/# screen -r
There are screens on:
19977.pts-0.Server (04/02/13 22:27:11) (Attached)
19557.pts-0.Server (04/02/13 22:24:00) (Attached)
There is no screen to be resumed.

[jbondhus]

Try screen -r 19977.pts-0.Server. If that doesn't work, try screen -r 19977. If those two commands don't work, reboot and then try it. That should fix it. Also, to stop the

[Amarog]

Still no screen to resume... I did correctly install screen.

[Amarog]

Another quick question, I've got a running server with maps and such. Should I put those maps in the map /worlds ? or just let them in the map "minecraft" ?

because this is said in the readme:
Move your worlds to the folder specified by WORLDSTORAGE

[jbondhus]

The maps should go in the folder specified by the variable
$WORLDSTORAGE. I don't understand what you mean.

DaLuke wrote:

Another quick question, I've got a running server with maps and such.
Should I put those maps in the map /worlds ? or just let them in the
map "minecraft" ?

because this is said in the readme:
Move your worlds to the folder specified by WORLDSTORAGE

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[Amarog]

Ok, that was a n00b question on my behalf. Well, yesterday I did another clean install of my linux system because i f*cked up a bit to much. So today I'm doing exactly the same of what I did some day's ago but now when I hit /etc/init.d/minecraft start I get this ...

Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try 'grep --help' for more information.
Rogue pidfile found!
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try 'grep --help' for more information.
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try 'grep --help' for more information.
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try 'grep --help' for more information.
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try 'grep --help' for more information.

(there's a minecraft.pid file in my minecraft map)

pfff I'm getting crazy over here ^^ If one thing works the other one breaks instead ^^

If I retry everything (so i delete the file's in my minecraft map and then delete the /etc/init.d/minecraft) and try to do everything over I get with the update-rc.d this error:
System start/stop links for /etc/init.d/minecraft already exist.

[Amarog]

Ok, I should better go to sleep. I forgot to install java ^^