Ascii Bukkit Menu

Ascii Bukkit Menu

What is it?

Ascii Bukkit Menu is a Bukkit server manager. Written with bash, designed to be simple and robust. Should work out of the box on most distros. Specificly designed to run on a headless server via a ssh session.

Features:

• Uses screen to keep server session running in background, can reconnect at anytime.
  
• Start/Stop/Restart commands.
  
• Send commands directly to bukkit server.
  
• Automatically update Bukkit server to latest recommended.
  
• Bukkit server log rotation. Rotates server.log on each start, keeps last 20 compressed.
  
• If using Ramdisks, will automatically copy worlds between ramdisk and localdisk. Then runs an md5sum to verify consistency of the data.
• Start and Stop server on boot using non-interactive mode.

See:

ScreenShots - Updated for 0.2.8

Download:

Latest Release 0.2.8

Dependencies:

• Java Runtime Enviroment http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
  
• bash http://www.gnu.org/s/bash/
  
• screen http://www.gnu.org/s/screen/
  -Must have vertical support. (This is baked into debian based systems)
  -Arch users try this package
  -RHEL/CentOS use Git Souce | HowTo
  
• grep http://www.gnu.org/s/grep/
  
• wget http://www.gnu.org/s/wget/
  
• zip / unzip
  
• logrotate
  
• md5sum (optional)
  
• sysstat utilities (optional to see network usage)
  
• python (optional)
  

Install:

AutoMagic Method:
This will download and install ABM, then run an interactive script to setup the configuration.
No need to edit config manually.
Simply copy and paste the following to a bash shell.

wget http://dev.bukkit.org/media/files/667/24/install.sh && chmod +x install.sh && ./install.sh

Traditional method - zip:

wget http://dev.bukkit.org/media/files/667/23/abm-0.2.8.zip
unzip abm-0.2.8.zip

Experimental Builds - git:
Not for the faint of heart.

git clone https://[email protected]/user77/Ascii-Bukkit-Menu.git

Usage:

To use ABM simply change to the directory you installed it to and run the abm.sh script.

cd Ascii-Bukkit-Menu
./abm.sh

You can also run in non-interactive mode. This can be added to startup scripts. Currently doesn't work if you are using a ramdisk

./abm --start
./abm --stop

Help:

First check to see you have the correct dependencies as listed above.
Make sure your user has +rx permissions to Ascii-Bukkit-Menu directory

chmod -R u+rx Ascii-Bukkit-Menu
chown -R you:yourgroup Ascii-Bukkit-Menu

Issues:

Dosen't work on screen without vertical support.

This is very much a work in progress. So if you come across a bug, please open a ticket.
here.