Yeah, I use screen to do everything with my servers. And if you check out the "another server script" topic. There is a script that does everything with bash.
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...use screen for their server, and how much luck have you had passing console commands?
I use screen for everything, including my Minecraft server. However, I rarely interact with the server directly, but fire up a multiplexer client. (see this the multiplexer code)
Just curious. Thanks!