[DGD] Running a DGD mud on Linux

[Noah Lee Gibbs]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Jay Shaffstall wrote:
> I'm about ready to start a 24/7 beta test of my DGD mudlib,

  Congratulations!  I like linking these things on my site, so when you'd 
like to be added to the "MUDLibs" or "MUDs Running DGD" sections, let me 
know.

> This is, however, my first time at running a 
> mud under Linux.  Can anyone suggest any places to look for more 
> information on what all needs to be done?

  Downloading CircleMUD and looking at their system is good :-).  Running 
a watchdog process like you mentioned is reasonable but not mandatory.  
One alternative is to have your MUD write a file periodically and have 
that file linked from a web server -- "MUD is alive and healthy at 7:37 
pm, Tuesday the 13th of August with four people logged in" or something 
like that.  CthulhuMUD used to do a variant on that, though the current 
version doesn't (or else the site doesn't link it).  You can do the same 
thing more directly if your MUD server runs an httpd :-)

  Mainly what you need is a little script to run the MUD and re-run it if 
it crashes (less mandatory in DGD).  If you look at CircleMUD, they do a 
good job of that.  Of course, they also need to worry more about crashes 
:-)

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