simple shell script to run pocketmine as a service/daemon

pocketmine.sh

#!/bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: pocketmine
# Required-Start:
# Required-Stop:
# Should-Start:
# Should-Stop:
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start and stop pocketmine
# Description: PocketMine
### END INIT INFO

POCKETMINE_PATH="/home/pi/pocketmine"
START_OPTS="--start --background --pidfile /var/run/pocketmine.pid --make-pidfile --exec $POCKETMINE_PATH/start.sh"
STOP_OPTS="--stop --pidfile /var/run/pocketmine.pid"

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

set -e

case "$1" in
    start)
        echo -n "Starting PocketMine-MP: "
        start-stop-daemon $START_OPTS > /dev/null
        echo "ok."
        ;;
    stop)
        echo -n "Stopping PocketMine-MP: "
        start-stop-daemon $STOP_OPTS
        echo "ok."
        rm -f /var/run/pocketmine.pid
        ;;
    restart|force-reload)
        echo -n "Restarting PocketMine-MP: "
        start-stop-daemon $STOP_OPTS
        sleep 1
        start-stop-daemon $START_OPTS > /dev/null
        echo "ok."
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

exit 0

after saving the script to your home or pocketmine folder, make it executable and set it up to be launched on bootup:

chmod +x pocketmine.sh
sudo cp pocketmine.sh /etc/init.d/
sudo update-rc.d pocketmine.sh defaults

nice but how would you logon to the server to change / adjust things for players ? I see some other scripts using screen. Any thoughts ?

Thanks !

oh