server help please

i run a server and i was wondering how do i get the server to save automatically without a save plugins. sucha s in some servers it says in pink letters [server]level saving prepare for a little lag
then it says [server]done saving catching up

 

they all use plugins to do auto saves

 

no such as the nerd servers their no plugins someone said theirs was a jar of their server.
it looks like this-[server]saving world data.expect lag for a short while [server]save complete

the [server] messages in game are in this pink type of color.

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If you're running linux, you can start the server in a screen session:

Code:

screen -dmS minecraft java -jar CraftBukkit.jar

Then use screen to pipe commands into the console:

Code:

screen -x minecraft -X stuff "`printf "say Saving all worlds, hold on to your butts.\r"`"

And then:

Code:

screen -x minecraft -X stuff "`printf "save-all\r"`"

The only drawback is that if there's something already in the console (IE, in the middle of manually typing a console command) and the script starts running, it just blindly executes whatever happens to already be in there, which is usually OK, but can sometimes be disastrous, so if you set it as a cron job, try to keep the console clear when it runs.

If you're running Windows, I don't personally know of a way to do it, not to say it can't be done though.

 

oh i use windows but thanks anyways

 

Perhaps it's time to do something about that.

 

is Linux much better? im not familiar with Linux.

 

Join my teamspeak3 server for "Server Outage Chat"

TS3: 76.118.210.107

 

Linux bash script..

 

do you know what im talking about with the pink letter save thing on a sever?

 

thats called a "server" broadcast message. It comes when any command/saying is typed/processed through the console. This happens when a plugin accesses the server console and runs a command.

 

yea but it does auto saves and backups like over a certain period of time not actually typing it in to do acommand for a plugin.

heres an image of what it should look like
http://imgur.com/p2ZND

anyone know how to get whats on that image about the saving into my server?

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That's just the 'say' command. In linux it's easy to do a save cronjob, while in windows it will be hard/not possible to interact with consoles.