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Re: Running the Elite:Dangerous Market Connector on Linux

Zoltán Horváth — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 08:10:45 -0000

Ty for taking the time write all this down!
Helped me a lot!
Works perfectly btw.

Re: Backing Up Your Minecraft Server in Ubuntu

OkinKun — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 01:35:20 -0000

Thanks so much for posting this, it's a huge lifesaver for my little vanilla server!
Couple things tho, I don't think the line "rm -f minecraft.tar.gz.24" is needed. The "mv fc-backup23.tar.gz fc-backup24.tar.gz" should override 24, if it exists, so there's no need to remove it first. Plus the filename is misspelled in that line anyway. ;)
The screen commands needed an additional x tag, so I can keep the server terminal open if I want, and no space after save-all/off/on:
screen -R mcserver1 -xX stuff "save-all$(printf '\r')"
Oh and btw, instead of just @daily or @hourly in the crontab, I do even hours using:
0 */2 * * * /home/MC_server/HOURLYBACKUP > /dev/null 2>&1
But still save 24, so I end up with 2 days worth of backups, in case I forget to check things one day.

Re: Backing Up Your Minecraft Server in Ubuntu

Akshay Kumar — Thu, 07 May 2020 00:40:06 -0000

Hi ! I made a server on Ununtu in termux on Anfroid. I wanted to put a world of my own. How can you do this??

Re: Backing Up Your Minecraft Server in Ubuntu

Joshua Pettus — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 15:56:55 -0000

Given what I said yesterday. I took the ideas in your script and made it a little cleaner with both scripts rolled into one. This way the daily is done at the same time while world saving is down. My own server is just default so I really am only interested in backing up the world level myself.

#!/bin/bash

#Check if the minecraft server is running
RESULT=`ps aux | grep "[m]inecraft_server.jar"`
if [ "${RESULT:-null}" = null ]; then #if the RESULT from the previous command is null
echo "Minecraft Server is not running, not backing up."
exit 1
else
#Let users know of the backup and turn off world saving temporarily
/usr/local/bin/mcrcon -H localhost -p password "say Backup starting. World no longer saving.." save-off save-all
sleep 3

#change working directory to my hourly backup folder
cd /srv/minecraft-server/mcbackup/hourly

#Rotate hourly backups
for (( X=23; X>=0; X-- )); do #Go though the iterations,
if [ -e World-Hour-$X.tar.gz ]; then #but only execute the following command if the file exists
mv World-Hour-$X.tar.gz World-Hour-$(($X+1)).tar.gz
fi
done

#do level backup
cd ../../
tar -cpvzf mcbackup/hourly/World-Hour-0.tar.gz World
cd mcbackup/hourly

#Copy newest backup to daily if it's 12 am with datestamp
H=$(date +%H) #get hour
if [ "$H" == "00" ]; then
cp -f ./World-Hour-0.tar.gz ../daily/World-Daily-$(date -d "today" +"%Y%m%d").tar.gz
fi

#Let users know the backup is done and re-enable world saving. Also relay the time, because why not.
/usr/local/bin/mcrcon -H localhost -p password save-on "say Backup complete. World now saving." "say Time is now $H:00"
fi
exit 0

Re: Backing Up Your Minecraft Server in Ubuntu

Joshua Pettus — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 01:04:46 -0000

Thank-you for this tutorial, a lot of good ideas here, even if it's a couple years old. I just wanted to add my thoughts though. First, screen is great for terminal multiplexing but tmux much newer and far better for that sort of thing and I can't recommend it enough. (I run my server in a runlevel 3 equivalent with ubuntu's systemd and it's a must for multitasking)

Second, if you are going to run a server all the time, terminal sessions are great and all, but they arn't meant to be used that way. Far better would be to setup an init daemon to control the minecraft server. Of course how do you control the server without a terminal session? The answer is setup rcon for the server. There is a commandline application called mcrcon which is great for the client side of this and can send both single commands and run a whole session in a terminal. rcon on the minecraft server listens on a seperate port from the rest of the server and can be easily locked down in the iptable firewall so no one can connect to it but the localhost. Just tell mcrcon to connect to localhost with your commands and you are good to go.

Re: Android to Android Tethering over Bluetooth

Szymonurai — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:53:19 -0000

Hello,

I'm a little late to this post but I really liked it I didn't realize AndroAndrod these type of capabilities. What I was thinking on the other hand since the Wi-Fi connection is slow is using a Nexus 7 tablet as a GPS instead of my phone the larger screen would be much better for navigation. It would be able to reroute on Google Maps as long as it had an internet connection I could disable all the other apps and updates and all it would be used for is a GPS. I'm going to try it out soon and see how it works with connecting to two Bluetooth devices at the same time that being my hands-free device in my car. With Google advancing Android auto into a standalone app I am wondering how this would work on my Nexus 7 tablet. This would be a great way to add Android auto into your car and minimize on the cost. However I am waiting on Google to implement Android auto as a standalone app.

Re: Android to Android Tethering over Bluetooth

JG Games — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 09:42:26 -0000

Excellent, I know this is an old post but very useful. For years I used foxfi/pdanet. Which works but not on every app. So many times I didn't get Internet access on say "Samsung Milk music" or "Google play music" but yet I'd get Internet access to play games like "Clash of clans". This left me puzzled for years! Since I've converted my Galaxy Note 10.1 gt-n8013 tablet to be my car media center, it annoyed me that I had to download all my music and podcasts instead of just streaming them and I couldn't use Google maps with traffic updates.

I tried to use just the blutooth tethering but I believe the United States carrier's block the connection once you turn off the wifi on the device that is providing the Internet access. So after reading this post I realized that if I connect the devices through foxfi/pdanet and then pair them (Galaxy Note 10.1 to my Galaxy Note 5) and turn on blutooth tethering and Internet access and it works perfectly! Thanks so much!

Re: Android to Android Tethering over Bluetooth

Carl — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 11:25:15 -0000

Just a "thank you" message. I would never have thought of that "silently fail to connect without explanation unless you activate tethering on a completely different screen" thing without the pointer in this article. Much appreciated.

Re: Tagging JPG photos using EXIF properties

Neil Broadley (Scaine) — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 18:20:02 -0000

Windows only, but if others find it useful, okay. I can't vouch for that install though. I really need to research if jBrout is still usable. It's been a couple of years since I used it.

Re: Tagging JPG photos using EXIF properties

Craig — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 18:15:03 -0000

Try https://code.google.com/p/j...

Re: Android to Android Tethering over Bluetooth

Ajay Gavit — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 18:35:33 -0000

Internet access profile is not showing me in pair devices in my sony xperia C.why?

Re: Step by Step : Install a Minecraft Server on Ubuntu

thevaliant x — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:35:39 -0000

This article needs to be removed. It is no longer accurate. Bukkit no longer (legally) exists.

Re: Tagging JPG photos using EXIF properties

Jesús — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 03:35:40 -0000

Seems to be a dead project... The website works, but all download links are broken, as is the debian repository. Sad thing, it looked good.

Re: Backing Up Your Minecraft Server in Ubuntu

Caleb — Mon, 04 May 2015 21:27:13 -0000

Help when I try to run screen it says permission denied.

Cannot exec '/home/stephen/minecraft_servers/caveless': Permission denied

Here is the command: screen -R caveless /home/stephen/minecraft_servers/caveless sh start.sh

I have already tried as sudo and it doesn't work.

Re: Android to Android Tethering over Bluetooth

wolf tatoo — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 20:45:30 -0000

Does not work for my A1-810 too!!

Re: Ubuntu to Android Tethering over Bluetooth

Andrew — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 12:07:16 -0000

I've found out that the sequence of steps is significant (on ubuntu 14.04 and Lenovo S860 at least):
first I have to set up phone as "BT hot spot", then connect devices via bluetooth and at last make a connection in NetworkManager.
If I first connect devices and then activate "BT Hotspot" connection is not established.

Re: Backing Up Your Minecraft Server in Ubuntu

Neil Broadley (Scaine) — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 04:32:55 -0000

To answer the first question - yes. My server isn't "headless", as such, but I run everything in this tutorial using "screen" commands - in other words, I might have access to a GUI, but I'm not using any GUI-based tools.

Regarding the second question, I'm not certain. As long as the *mineuser* account is in the group assigned to /backups/minecraft_backups, I suppose that would work?

Re: Backing Up Your Minecraft Server in Ubuntu

Tony — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:10:34 -0000

Will this crontab approach work on a headless server which might get rebooted every so often and so no one is physically typing to logon on to the server and the server has a startup script to automatically start minecraft in screen?
Second, what if the backup folder is not under /home but maybe in another folder - what permissions should I grant for that other folder? For example minecraft is here: /home/mineuser/minecraft backup folder is here /backups/minecraft_backups/

Re: Android to Android Tethering over Bluetooth

chhotu — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 05:07:30 -0000

suppose i have galaxy core device which is registered on some wi fi network, and i also i have other device(pc/mobile) which is not registered on wi fi. so how can share the wi fi connection to unregistered phone via Bluetooth threatening while accessing connection on registered device.....
as because if Bluetooth therning is done the wi fi connection auto goes on swich off...

Re: Android to Android Tethering over Bluetooth

Nero Tux — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:11:59 -0000

Doesn't work with Acer Iconia A1-810 Kitikat

Re: Ubuntu Touch – Early Impressions

Neil Broadley (Scaine) — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 07:21:57 -0000

Yep, well, I'm about to try UOS again, but this time on an old Nexus 4 I've acquired. I think it'll be a better experience - a combination of a further 6 months of work and the Nexus 4 being the reference platform. I'll likely to a follow up post.
Agree that there's not a lot of room for another mobile platform, but what's exciting about UOS is that it's not really a mobile platform. It's just an extension of Ubuntu to the mobile form factor. I think they're "doing it right", while everyone is still with multiple platforms - iOS/OSX, Windows Phone 8/Windows 8, Android/Chrome.

Re: Ubuntu Touch – Early Impressions

Patrick Davidson — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 15:41:42 -0000

No comments either until this one. That's not a good sign either. Coming from a wasted 6 months to a year on Windows 8 apps, this would appear it could be more of the same. I would argue we do need another mobile OS, but will admit that the big players may not let that happen (doing everything they can to kill it).

Re: Step by Step : Install a Minecraft Server on Ubuntu

Neil Broadley (Scaine) — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 04:36:07 -0000

This article is about how you make your own 24/7 server. No idea if there are free services out there. I just made my own.

Re: Step by Step : Install a Minecraft Server on Ubuntu

TKGaming — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 01:35:43 -0000

how do u get a free 24/7 server

Re: Step by Step : Install a Minecraft Server on Ubuntu

Neil Broadley (Scaine) — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:04:22 -0000

No, this guide is for Bukkit installs. Funnily enough, I plan to start messing about with Forge soon because some of the better mods are based on it. The problem with Forge is that you have to install a Forge client as well as the server, so it's a bit more hassle.

Still, some of the mods are excellent, so if I make good progress, I may write a new article about getting it going.

I'll probably use something like this article to get started, as I have zero experience with Forge currently. http://bad-programming.blog...

Good luck.

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