Re: Pfiles

From: Sammy (samedi@DHC.NET)
Date: 08/14/97


On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Ben Boyle wrote:

> > Asking for opinions on what things are most likly to trash pfiles, the
> > binary ones. In the past it used to happen to us occasionally when an
>
> we had a similar problem recently - the mud would crash everytime we tried
> to "stat" him.  it was to do with affections - he was blinded, invisible,
> poisoned, infravision... *shrug*.  have a look in the system logs.
> unaffect fixed our problem, but i still don't how it happened to begin with.

If that person has access to the pfiles, he could have transferred them to
another computer and fired up a copy of circle to imm himself and transfer
them back.  It's a longshot, but the symptoms you describe sounds like
what happens when you transfer the binary pfiles from one operating system
to another.

Sam


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