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by ChoosesBarbecue 9 days ago
I'm struggling to find documentation on `IDLE_SERVER`, do you know of any? The only place I see it documented is on ArchWiki [0], but I don't know if that is an Arch distribution specific feature.

I do see `pause-when-empty-seconds` [1] when looking at the wiki, which seems the closest, although I can't find doc on what "paused" means (this is the closest [2]). Looks like a fairly new feature (2024), but it's neat they've thought about it.

[0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Minecraft/Java_Edition_serv...

[1]: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Server.properties

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/admincraft/comments/1k330eg/what_ha...
2 comments
harrigan 9 days ago
You might be right: I am indeed using https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/minecraft-server. I thought IDLE_SERVER was an upstream feature but it seems to part of that package's management script.
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syrrim 9 days ago
> I don't know if that is an Arch distribution specific feature.

That's unlikely for two reasons, first because minecraft is closed source, and second because arch packages usually follow upstream very closely.

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ChoosesBarbecue 9 days ago
Based on my read of the `minecraft-server` package [0], I think it is using a management script wrapper around the raw Minecraft JAR [1], which implements the aforementioned idle functionality [2].

[0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/about/?h=minecraft-se...

[1]: https://github.com/Edenhofer/minecraft-server

[2]: https://github.com/Edenhofer/minecraft-server/blob/421ff0ff3...

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syrrim 9 days ago
that's not arch specific per se but touche
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