[MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from scratch

[Matt Chatterley]

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On 06-Aug-98 Ross Nicoll wrote:
> Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt wrote in a Mail about "[MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS]
> Starting from scratch":
> 
>>>2. I would like to be able to attach muds to the server as nodes. To be
>>>honest, this was an idea that sounded cool, but I figure that there
>>>would be
>>>more control gained this way. If the node were to crash/reboot then
>>>connections would be kept and added to a queue for when the mud
>>>restarts.
>  > So the player gets "the game is down, please wait" ?
> Reminds me of a thought I had for my MUD. The MUD, whenever we change
> anything
> in the code (it's a Diku style MUD, most of the stuff is in code), obviously
> has to go through a reboot. I was wandering about having the data for
> connections written out with the database (with sanity checking on load, of
> course, incase something goes wrong after the database is saved), then have
> the server load the new binary over itself with one of the exec() functions.
> 
> The player would get "The server is rebooting, please wait" or similar...

PennMUSH provides an '@shutdown/reboot' feature, which does just this kind of
thing (for seamlessly upgrading to changed binaries, when you patch the server
to a newer version, and so forth). Nifty. I was looking at something similar
myself, but decided it wasn't worth the effort - my reboot stuff is rigged to
attempt to reboot itself when noone is online (and the required minimum time
has elapsed); if it goes to an upper threshold point where it 'must' reboot, it
will do so, giving a few minutes grace to any online players.

Why bother with this? SImply because its really annoying to get punted by
reboots; its not hard to take small measures to try and time them into the off
hours (most Muds do this manually anyway - why not go one small hop further?)

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        -Matt Chatterley
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"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.." -John Lennon (Imagine)

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