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by syrrim 13 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 13 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 13 days ago
that's not arch specific per se but touche
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