The following is a script that can be used to start a dedicated server on boot/reboot of the host. This was setup after noticing my Ubuntu Server 14.0 had rebooted after updates which in-turn killed the DST dedicated server. If you have not yet setup a dedicated server on a Linux machine I would recommend using the following as reference. This was used to setup DST on my Linux server: http://dont-starve-game.wikia.com/wiki/Guides/Simple_Dedicated_Server_Setup Navigate to the directory you created the file ealrier. cd /etc/init.d/ updates the file to be excutable: sudo chmod +x start_dst.sh