Run a command at start up that uses screen.
 

Hey LQ,

I'm trying to make my new vps launch a minecraft server when the vm boots. I know this is probably pretty straight forward, but I want to run the minecraft server from a new screen, so that I can reattach to it when ssh into it later.

Normally I do

screen -S "mc-server" and this gives me a new screen with a prompt.

then I do

java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui

then I do

ctrl+a+d to exit the screen and then log out of putty.

Any tips in the right direction would be swell. thank you.

Put this in your crontab

tmux
 

You can also do it in tmux in a similar manner:

Then to reconnect, it would be like this from the shell:

If you need to share the mc server with others, there are ways to make it read-only.