Use cron tabs to execute Minecraft commands to console at a given period

Web-UI
1

I’d like to know, is there a way to use cron tabs to execute Minecraft server commands at given intervals (just like the restart, backup, archive works) and how would I go about doing this?

2

Yes, this is what mineos_config.py is for, in /usr/games/minecraft.

Pretty much every command possible from MineOS’ web-ui is available through this CLI script, so you can run commands like:

cd /usr/games/minecraft
./mineos_console.py --help
./mineos_console.py -s myserver backup

Once you can get the command working like this, it’s easy to port it over to cron tabs with crontab generators.

3

OK, cool. I’ll be playing around with the file in a few days from now.

4

Just wanted to say thanks for this! I didn’t know that mineos_console.py was a pipe like this. I’m planning on having cron automatically say messages to the server! Too cool.