I just start messing with servers with no gui - dedicate server, and I have find out that after you start factorio with '--start-server SAVE' param there is no telling what is happening with server. Of course you can start it in cmd but after few lines of initial code there is no response what is going on with server.
Is there any open hooks to see what is going on?
I could do some "magic"
but I would prefer to not messing with memory too much. Also not always it is possible (admin rights 
)
in the past.