On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Ben D Heise wrote: >>More likely something getting into a loop or taking forever. Not that >>anything while shutting down should, except maybe flushing sockets. > >right, but it must be some sort of infinite loop, as I left the computer >for 8 hours after killing the mud, and the process was still running. > >gets a little anoying when I kill it and then expect to reboot it >immediately, I get "that process is already running" errors. Since we never turn off the 'checkpointing()' timer, it should never last more than 3 minutes (on a Unix machine). Maybe you have an attached debugger that keeps the program alive after it wants to terminate? -- George Greer greerga@circlemud.org -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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