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by **nolan** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 10:28

I'm an admin of my own server that I host along with my father.

I just simply need to know how to keep my server online without the admin on it. Every time the admin logs off, the server shuts down.

by **nolan** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 01:07

What is a terminal?

by **Evergreen** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 01:10

nolan wrote:What is a terminal?

You are obviously a windows user.

by **philipbenr** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 01:13

oh my gosh.

sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. Anyhoo, if you are running Windows, click on your start menu, go under all programs, and look under accessories or something like that. It will probably have calculator and paint and notepad in it. Terminal is Command Prompt. If on Linux, then it will be a lot more complex to figure out, especially on the distribution.

by **philipbenr** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 01:18

Evergreen wrote:
nolan wrote:What is a terminal?
You are obviously a windows user.

I am 90% positive that your statement is true. (Though he might have a Mac (roughly 8.5%) or by some random FREAK of coincidence he might have Linux (less than 2%) and never heard of the terminal.)

by **nolan** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 01:48

Evergreen wrote:
nolan wrote:What is a terminal?
You are obviously a windows user.

yes evergreen, very very good lol

by **onpon4** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 17:51

You can not hear of the terminal as a GNU/Linux user. It's just that knowing about the terminal makes it easier for people to feed you instructions for how to do something.

by **ParaklataChotou** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 19:02

philipbenr wrote:oh my gosh.

sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. Anyhoo, if you are running Windows, click on your start menu, go under all programs, and look under accessories or something like that. It will probably have calculator and paint and notepad in it. Terminal is Command Prompt. If on Linux, then it will be a lot more complex to figure out, especially on the distribution.

You never answerd the nolan's question. I have the same problem. How can I stay online my server with no need I be present?

by **Tmanyo** » Mon Aug 01, 2016 01:18

Open terminal and type "minetest --server --worldname (name of your server) without the ()". That starts the server without you as a player. If you close the terminal, you have just stopped the server.

by **ParaklataChotou** » Mon Aug 01, 2016 08:26

Tmanyo wrote:Open terminal and type "minetest --server --worldname (name of your server) without the ()". That starts the server without you as a player. If you close the terminal, you have just stopped the server.

OH, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

by **AnxiousInfusion** » Thu Aug 11, 2016 06:06

ParaklataChotou wrote:OH, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

I was going to ask how you could possibly not have known this but also have a GitHub account ...though a cursory search revealed that you in fact have no such account.

You could probably use some reading material:

http://wiki.minetest.net/Setting_up_a_server

http://wiki.minetest.net/Command_line

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