Re: Newbie unix question

From: X Schiltz (joes@SKIPNET.COM)
Date: 02/06/98


I just use me good old "shutdown die" to kill the autorun script (: Might
just be bpl12, I dunno. Of course, you might want to kill the script, but
not kill the MUD, what do do then? WRite a function? Hmm...

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X Schiltz       MUD:dataserv.net 4000
(Joe Schilz)    homepage:http://www.skipnet.com/~joes/

On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Patrick Sullivan wrote:

> At 04:34 PM 2.6.98 -0800, you wrote:
> >Uh...doesn't it stay on all of the time anyways? Maybe it's just me bash,
> >but I can log on, log out, log on, log out, log onto mud, shutdown reboot,
> >and it's back up in 5 seconds(or less!) That's all.
>
> Yeah, it does, but ps will (unless you're root-privleged) only display
> processes from your tty, so if you run the autorun script, then log off
> your unix account, and then log back on, you can't use ps to find out the
> process of your script/mud (at least on *my* linux ;)). Just in case you
> need to 'kill' it in the future, it's just useful to keep the ps number
> written down somewhere. Though this usually is only needed if you are
> coding something and really screw up on re-compiling the mud ;)
>
>         /  Patrick Sullivan      | "The important thing is
> *//////{<>==================-    |  to not stop questioning."
> -JAPH-  \  psullivan@stlnet.com  | --Albert Einstein
>
> "Always do what you are afraid to do."--Ralph Waldo Emerson


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