Re: [mob index problem]

From: Ron Hensley (ron@CROSS.DMV.COM)
Date: 08/08/97


On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Snow Man wrote:

> hello I have having trouble booting my mud back up
>
> can anyone help me with this error?
>
>
> Fri Aug  8 04:37:02 :: Loading mobs and generating index.
> Format error after mob #-1
> thanks

Go look in your mob directory. One of your mob files is empty due to an
OLC crash i would bet. When oasis writes a file to disk, the old one is
overwritten temporarily, id imagine due to an fopen(file,"w") call.

If the mud crashes before the file is re-written, you end up with an
empty file. Ive not had this problem in quite some time, but it does happen.

Find the trashed mob file and restore from backups

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