[WIP] [Tool] Vps Prep :>

Hello I am gravypod.
A friend and I are working on a shell script to fully setup a VPS to be ready to be given to a client! We wouldn't mind a few extra hands! We are FAAAAR from being done. If you would like to test this [it most likely wont work] and send us the errors you get we'd be very great full.

Link to our git-hub!
https://github.com/minecraftdirectq/vps-shell-scripts

Thank you for reading!

p.s. If you would like to help add me on Skype, I'm gpodkatz

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I'd be interested to see how this turns out. I've set up minecraft servers a number of times on various dedicated and virtual servers, I've often thought about writing a bash script to labour the task for me.
I think this script would be very useful to users who are moving from a home hosted solution to a professional server.

Some of my thoughts on the script:
I don't think that the non-free packages are included by default on a lot of debian distro's, and I believe the Sun JRE is non-free.

I think you should note to users that your script is for Debian based OS's; possibly you could expand into Redhat, SuSe, Arch etc systems too. (Here's a handy link if you do https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Rosetta). You will no doubt have to do some research into different distro's repo's.

I don't think a GUI would be useful, because the majority of users will have to access their server via SSH.

I can't speak for everyone, but I don't like scripts which download and use other scripts. I understand it's probably to simply to shorten the setup script, but I think it would be better either to package all the files together (in a tarball) or have the setup script create the files.

I personally create a system user to run the minecraft server, and a group of users with permissions to the server. It makes managing the server with a group of administrators more tidy; perhaps you could include this?

I also don't think all the "sudo" are necessary or tidy. You should simply add a check at the beginning of the script to check whether the script is being run as a root user.

Hey, why not go all out and add the option of setting up a ramdisk for the minecraft world directory

 

you might want to check the methods used to install MineOS CRUX.

It might give you some ideas about how you do or don't want your process to work.

 

Thank you for your contribution