Abandoned Codex

Omen · Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 16

why did the mud go down? i cannot log on and its 3pm pacific time.
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neq · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:33 am Post subject:

you broke it

Ronin · Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Posts: 42

Hmm. Random thought, what kind of neatness are you allowed / not allowed to do on the server where AC sits Gareth?
As most times it crashes, it refuses telnet sessions, wouldn't it be easy enough to write up a script for crontab to restart it?
like;

if ! `telnet 127.0.0.1 4000`;
/bin/kill '/usr/bin/pgrep ac_process' && /usr/local/foo/bar/restart_ac;
/usr/bin/mail -s"AC Blowed up at `date`" gareth(at)foo.bar;
exit 1;
else
exit 0;
fi

Although I guess having said all that, you may prefer to catch it whilst crashed for froensicsy type stuff...

Just a thought.
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Gareth · Admin 2 Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 525

Such a script does indeed exist (except it checks the output of ps ux rather than telnetting), but sometimes it's commented out while the mud is on gdb.

Ronin · Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Posts: 42

Right, I suppose it was silly of me to assume that there wasn't. Razz

Ohwell.
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neq · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:49 am Post subject:

i can't connect and Idle while I do homework ... this isn't good

neq · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 2:38 am Post subject:

what does it mean when it says connection refused?

Nightblade · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject:

I banned you! LOLZ

No, really I have no idea.
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