Don't sweat it, without you I wouldn't have caught my mistake. Happy mining. If you want, check out my post on improving performance for how to setup a ramdisk (change paths to world dir accordingly).
Change this: Code: java -Xms2030M -Xmx2560M craftbukkit-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar nogui To this: Code: java -Xms2030M -Xmx2560M -jar craftbukkit-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar nogui
how come when i copy the link and do yum install [link] it says nothing to do? how do i fix this also im doing it as root
OP, Sun Java can be installed and selected as default via: Code: sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ maverick partner" sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sudo update-alternatives --config java It's been included in the "partners" repo since 10.04 (see the release notes)
Looks good, but it doesn't make it clear if it's installing Sun Java x64, or x86. Can you do a java -version for me and let me know - it'd be nice to get it all done in command line.
What are your permissions on start.sh ? Try: Code: # chmod +x start.sh --- merged: Jan 17, 2011 11:01 PM --- Installation instructions: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/5000011400.xml Pretty easy, but make sure you uninstall the the Open Java first. If your unsure on how to do that.. Code: $ man yum But should be something like this.. Find the package you want removed. Code: # yum list |grep -i java Then remove it Code: # yum remove java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64 I know there is a yum repo that does host a copy of sun java, but you would need to look for it, can't seem to find it. But any centos, redhat, fedora repo should do the trick.
I don't know jack about linux, so I'll ask this. Is it possible to leave the server console and go back to the shell to change a file or something, then re-enter the server console, without needing to shut it down?
what's wrong with you??! i only skimmed this, so i may have missed it, but it might be a good idea to have them create a different user to run minecraft as.. avoids security issues. i'm going to use your backup instructions, because doing it manually sucks
Upon installing Ubuntu you get prompted to setup a new user account (aside from root). As this is a single purpose box, I relied on them using that account to run it. I suppose I could modify it to create a very limited user account, just didn't worry about that much. So I throw this question out the to community. What do you think? Should I create a section on setting up a very restricted user, or as long as they aren't running as root are they fine? As for backups, if you have the Ubuntu GUI installed, SimpleBackup is a sweet alternative to the rsync command line backup.
makes sense.. i use my server for other stuff (mostly to get pandora around the proxy at work ) by default, ubuntu users are non-root. so it is probably ok --- merged: Jan 27, 2011 6:38 PM --- use screen for this... you'll have to google it.. i've learned from a friend, but not enough to really give instructions. i have a screen window for main server, test server, tectonicus (mapper), minecraft user shell, main user shell, etc and with screen, you can reconnect to it if you ssh in from another computer.. (screen -dr) wonderful stuff
I saw a post floating around with instructions on this, I just can't find it right now. Its in here somewhere. I wish they had a section for us to sticky "How To" articles. Its would be nice to have a single spot to go to when looking for them, instead of digging through the forums.
Also, what would happen if I closed the SSH window with the server running? would I need to kill it and restart it to get access again?
Yes, you would. However, that is when using the screen command comes in handy as it allows you to run the program and close your SSH session without force stopping the server. Shit, I really need to find those instructions.
A very quick, and breifly glanced at google search yielded this: http://www.rackaid.com/resources/linux-screen-tutorial-and-how-to/
I get this when I run craftbukkit in Ubuntu: Could not create the Java virtual machine. Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: CMSMarkStack allocation failure Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: Failed to allocate CMS Marking Stack Error occurred during initialization of VM Could not create CMS collector It works fine for me on my mac.
Hmmm, which Java are you using? Oracle or OpenJDK? The latest version? What command are you running it with?
I got the java bin file from java.com and used the command in your start.sh file. Server works fine with just "java -jar craftbukkit.jar nogui"
Can you post the command you're using? I'm guessing you've just typo'd somewhere (Or I typo'd somewhere in my instructions).
Is it possible to try it with 512M? I am wondering if setting the max heap at 400M is simply too low (when you don't specify the -Xmx, it will go as high as it needs to). Did you try the exact same command on your Mac, or did you modify values?
Try with -Xmx512M. It should still work even if your max server ram is 512. It'll just eat up everything there. I just haven't seen anyone run the server with less than 512M, so that's my guess.
