On 2026/09/23 03:10, Anthony J. Bentley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Minecraft is a popular block-building mining crafting game with procedurally
> generated worlds. This package contains the official multiplayer server for
> Minecraft: Java Edition, currently published by Microsoft.
> 
> 
> Included is a wrapper script that selects the right Java version and sets
> some Java flags that otherwise the program whines about.
> 
> I would have liked to provide an rc script, but Minecraft expects the
> server to run in the foreground and accept commands on stdin. Without
> an rc script, I felt it wasn't worth allocating a user for this either.
> (FreeBSD disagrees: their port provides a user, and requires the server
> be run as root so it can drop to that user.)
> 
> ok?
> 
> -- 
> Anthony J. Bentley

ok.

The simplest way to run it automatically may be with an @reboot in the
user crontab, starting it with "tmux new-session".