[gentoo-user] Writing Gentoo initscript question

[Jake Moe]

I'm currently trying to write a simple initscript to run
minecraft-server on one of my boxes.  I've looked at the ebuild provided
via java-overlay, but it turns out it uses baselayout 2, and I'm not
ready to go down that upgrade path on this particular box just yet.

So far, I've managed to get a simple start() function written, which
kinda-sorta "works"; it will start the server, but there are two problems:

1) The "server" was written to stay interactive on a console, so you can
manage it from there.  As such, the process never exits, so the
initscript gets stuck on "starting"
2) There is nowhere in the server config file to specify where it writes
it's data files.  So when I run this from my initscript, it seems to
default to the root directory, and I can't figure out how to tell it to
use something else as a working directory.

So far, I've got this:

depend() {
  need bootmisc localmount net
}

start() {
  einfo "Starting Minecraft Server"
  cd /usr/local/games/minecraft-server
  start-stop-daemon --start --make-pidfile --pidfile
/var/run/minecraft-server.pid \
                    --exec /usr/bin/java -- -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar
/usr/local/games/minecraft-server/minecraft_server.jar nogui
  eend $?
}

Do any of the experts here know a way out of my dilemma?

Jake Moe