[DGD] Running commands every 5 minutes

Kevin Carpenter kevinc at seaplace.org
Thu Aug 1 19:50:10 CEST 2002


Just us a call_out and have the function code invoke itself.  I'd suggest
that Auto is a bad place, since Auto is inherited by every object.  This
sounds most appropriate for some mud management object, like the Driver
object.

Kevin C.

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm wanting to output the status for the mud I'm developing
> to a text file which I intend to display on my website so that
> users can see whether the mud is online and how long it
> has been online.
> 
> I've found the commands I think I should use (kfuns)
> write_file and remove_file. However I'm not sure of how
> to get the function I write to run every so many minutes.
> 
> Also since I'm very new to coding for dgd, I'm not
> entirly certain of where would be the most appropriate
> place to put this function. Should it go in auto?
> 
> Thanks for any help :)
> 
> muphicks.
> 
> 
> 
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