Well judging by your syslog.3 it is just telling you that the game is alreaddy running, and the syslog.4 file is just saying someone did a shutdown die or killall circle/autorun so that dosn't realy explain why your mud is crashing, try looking in the syslog.CRASH and that should contain some details
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