Run Minecraft Server as a Daemon

minecraft-server

I liked this one the best: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/74402-setup-linux-daemon/.

1) Get the code snippet below into a file in /etc/init.d/.  This will be referenced as FILENAME henceforth. I used:
/etc/init.d/minecraft-server:

minecraft-server

#! /bin/sh
#
# network Bring up/down networking
#
# chkconfig: 345 20 80
# description: Starts and stops minecraft-server-nogui.sh
#

case "$1" in
  start)
                echo -n "Starting Minecraft Server"
                /bin/su - andrew -c '/opt/minecraft_server/minecraft-server-start-nogui.sh'
                echo "."
                ;;
  stop)
                echo -n "Stopping Minecraft Server"
                 kill `ps auxw | grep minecraft.jar | awk '{print $2}'`
                echo "."
                ;;

  *)
                echo "Usage: /sbin/service minecraft-server {start|stop}"
                exit 1
esac


2) chmod a+x FILENAME

3) chkconfig --add FILENAME

4) chkconfig