Running a Minecraft server as daemon on Amazon Linux

minecraft-server

#!/bin/bash
#
# chkconfig: 2345 95 05
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: minecraft-server
# Required-Start: $network $local_fs $remote_fs
# Required-Stop: $network $local_fs $remote_fs
# Should-Start: $syslog
# Should-Stop: $syslog
# Short-Description: start and stop minecraft server
# Description: Minecraft Server 
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network

prog=minecraft-server
realprog=startup.sh
workingdir=/usr/local/minecraft-server
lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/$prog

start() {
	[ "$EUID" != "0" ] && exit 4
	[ "$NETWORKING" = "no" ] && exit 1

	# Start daemon.
	echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
	cd $workingdir
	daemon $workingdir/$realprog -u minecraft-server:daemon -p /var/run/minecraft-server.pid $OPTIONS
	RETVAL=$?
	echo
	[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch $lockfile
	return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
	[ "$EUID" != "0" ] && exit 4
        echo -n $"Shutting down $prog: "
	killproc $realprog
	RETVAL=$?
        echo
	[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile
	return $RETVAL
}

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
	start
	;;
  stop)
	stop
	;;
  status)
	status $prog
	;;
  restart|force-reload)
	stop
	start
	;;
  try-restart|condrestart)
	if status $prog > /dev/null; then
	    stop
	    start
	fi
	;;
  reload)
	exit 3
	;;
  *)
	echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|try-restart|force-reload}"
	exit 2
esac

startup.sh

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/java -jar /usr/local/minecraft-server/server.jar