1) install screen and java-jre-headless 1) create unpriviliged user+group "minecraft" 1) create folder /srv/minecraft mkdir -p /srv/minecraft 1) chown minecraft.minecraft /srv/minecraft 1) copy unit-file to /lib/systemd/system/minecraft.service 1) enable unit-file 1) copy update-minecraft.sh to /usr/local/bin 1) make updatescript executable 1) add updatescript to /etc/crontab: 0 3 * * * root bash /usr/local/bin/update-minecraft.sh