Re: [NEWBIE] [QUESTION] Running things without online characters ?

From: Patrick Dughi (dughi@imaxx.net)
Date: 02/03/99


> i have a little problem, i want my Mud to accept intermud requests, like
> who and so on, while none is online, too. So that the 'world' sees, that
> really none is here. I tried to implement it some time the last days, but
> i found no access to it, it won't work :(

        Not sure about this, but i'm assuming that intermud stops
accepting connections at the same time your mud goes to sleep. :)

>
> Another idea, was that the mud lives on, while none is online, like the
> mobs will move on,... this would be like the same, it has to run while
> waiting for new descriptors. (Well it costs a bit of main power while
> idling/sleeping the mud, but a bit more real, ...)
>
        Look for 'The Big Cheese.' somewhere in comm.c and just don't have
circle go to sleep if the descriptor list is null.  Thats pretty simple
huh?
                        PjD


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