Minecraft wiki entry for Create_a_Mac_OS_X_startup_daemon, associated text: Of course, you want to adjust as needed, with the starting path being where you actually installed your Minecraft server in the first place, and please look-up the previous section for an explanation of the chown command. And please don't forget the dot at the end of the mv command, it's barely visible but it's there, it means the destination is our current folder! Otherwise, command will fail