Comment by tetha

6 months ago

Interesting. Do minecraft servers have an interactive shell when they are running?

Yes ... you can white/blacklist users and IP addresses, change server.properties and reload the properties without restarting the server, kick players, message all players. All kinds of nice features.

They do, if you type something like `stop`, it's equivalent to typing `/stop` in the in-game chat. In my scripts I set stdin to a named pipe, to be able to send commands later.