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➜ Graceful restart from NUX environment
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Graceful restart from NUX environment
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| Posted by
| DarkFurion
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| Mon 04 Mar 2013 09:39 PM (UTC) |
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| Hello Everyone, hello Nick.
I've been hired as a sysadm on an Italian mud that runs smaug.
I've been prompted with a request about doing a scheduled restart of the mud every night.
The quick n dirty solution is to kill the mud and start it again.
I'd like to implement a way to emulate the wiz "shutdown mud now" command, issuing it from a crontab shell.
Is there a way to insert commands into the mud's command buffer from the unix shell?
Thanks in advance,
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,158 posts) Bio
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| Reply #1 on Tue 05 Mar 2013 02:55 AM (UTC) |
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| You should be able to write a tiny "client" that connects to the server with an admin login / password and then issues the shutdown command. Run that each night.
Here is some example code:
http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/bbshowpost.php?id=2206
Instead of waiting for keyboard input you could simply send a shutdown after the client had logged in for 10 seconds. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| DarkFurion
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| Reply #2 on Tue 05 Mar 2013 10:14 AM (UTC) |
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| | Thanks for your feedback Nick, i'll try that tonight. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| DarkFurion
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| Reply #3 on Thu 07 Mar 2013 01:07 PM (UTC) |
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| I've been working with the code, i'm at the point where, if i launch the client manually, it will show me the mud, the automatic input will be fired and the mud will be rebooted correctly.
I enclosed the executable inside a sheel that launches it but, when, through crontab, the whole process is started, the function "sendit(s, msg)" won't fire the messages, the mud remains on the initial splash (initial_string isn't enough to pass through the login process)
Any suggestions?
do i have to remove the whole part of the keyboard input loop?
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,158 posts) Bio
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| Reply #4 on Thu 07 Mar 2013 09:13 PM (UTC) |
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| | I think I would remove the part that reads the keyboard, as that may fail in a batch file without any input in it. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,158 posts) Bio
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| Reply #5 on Thu 07 Mar 2013 09:15 PM (UTC) |
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| I tried something like this but without success:
telnet <ip address> <port> << EOF
nick <-- player name
foo <-- password
shutdown mud now
quit
EOF
There must be a way of doing something like that.
You could have MUSHclient running on your PC, and have a timer set to connect to the MUD, and then shut it down, every day. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
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| Reply #6 on Fri 08 Mar 2013 01:29 PM (UTC) |
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| | I'll try to mash with the code a bit and see if i get a nice solution to post up here, so if anyone might need it, it would be available. | | Top |
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