starting minecraft server on system startup

This is an initscript to run a Minecraft or CraftBukkit server on CentOS, Fedora, and Ubuntu.

Features

• Start, stop, restart CraftBukkit as a system service
• Automatic (via cron) and manual logfile rotation
• Automatic (via cron) and manual backups
• Backup compression and rotation (keeps 7 days worth of backups)
• Check latest Recommended Build and update to it if required
• Information display including Java path, current memory usage, current TCP connections
• Able to run multiple separate instances of the server at once

Supported Distributions

• CentOS 6, CentOS 5, Fedora 14
  (probably works on Fedora Core 6 and later, untested)
• Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS

Other distros which use SysV Init or Upstart (Debian, Mint) will probably work.
Distros using systemd (Fedora 15+, Arch Linux, etc) will not work.

Get the script, view Requirements, Installation, Backups, Multiple Instances, and Usage

• https://github.com/superjamie/minecraft-init-script

License

Released under GNU GPL v3 - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

Credits

Thanks to these people whose work I have used in the making of this

• http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/tutorial-centos-bukkit-installation.56371/
• http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/M3tal_Warrior_Server_Startup_Script
• http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/admin-linux-init-script-for-bukkit.53235/