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I'm running a Synology NAS, which uses some flavor of Linux distribution. From there, among everything else running, I have a docker container hosting a Minecraft Bedrock Server. The MCBE server is great for fun, but not so great for resource usage. To handle this, most folks setup something to schedule the server to restart.
Within Synology, there is a task scheduler where I can run a user-defined script to restart the whole container:
docker restart mcbe-world
This works, but it's a dirty reboot though. I worried about corrupting the world (which I do regularly backup). From within the Minecraft server terminal, the /stop command will gracefully shut it down.
I can't update the container with another application, like screen, because each MCBE update means replacing the entire container (and so destroying the changes). I am looking to somehow redirect a command to the server if possible.
Using docker exec -it mcbe-world , I can execute what I want within the container.
The person here said, one can "inject commands by running the command as the appropriate account and redirecting it into the server" and they gave the example sudo su -s /bin/bash -c "echo say foobar > /run/service@name" Unfortunately, this isn't so clear and straight forward to me.
Would anyone here be able to articulate this more clearly for me or have an idea as to how I might issue that /stop command from the Synology scheduled script BEFORE restarting the container?
Thanks!
UPDATE: Solution here: https://beehaw.org/comment/1088961
just run
docker exec mcbe-world /stopthen just wait a bit till it shuts down cleanly and then start it again...AFAIK /stop is not just a shell command, it needs to be given to stdin of the minecraft process. The broader question here is how to pass something to stdin of a running process.
docker exec mcbe-worldjust gives access to the container so commands can be executed./stopis a specific command for the MC server running in that container. The process is already running and I am trying to figure out how to issue a command to it... and the other comment in this post referencing "rcon" might be a solution...yes, and that command I pasted will run that /stop command inside the docker container. The same way you can list files or do any other commands on a running container: