On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, pjh wrote: > I am perplexed. After a few days (or even hours its so far as I know a > random time) my mud will suddenly loose write access to the OS. This means > that peoples stuff isn't saved when they quit, nothing is saved when they > quit. Most noticeably is that OLC doesn't work, Mail i get Error #13 or > #11 i think. Um and other crazy stuff related to the no-write access. > however as far as Linux goes write access IS there to the person that runs > the mud. Whenever I kill -9 the mud and restart it it works fine. I am > totally out in the blue on this one. Its doesn't like 'Crash' so to > speak, nor am I capable of finding exactly WHEN this happens. Any help is > greatly appreciated. Hmm. Check your syslog. If you see anything similar to this: >From wart@trilidun.kuntrynet.com Wed Feb 12 09:35:28 1997 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 07:09:55 -0500 (EST) From: pjh <wart@trilidun.kuntrynet.com> Reply-To: circle@cspo.queensu.ca To: circle@cspo.queensu.ca Subject: [CODE] No Write Access Afterthought I was digging around my syslog file and found this error: Wed Feb 12 00:09:40 :: Perip killed by the ugly witch at A Corridor SYSERR: checking for crash file plrobjs/P-T/perip.objs (3): Too many open files SYSERR: READING OBJECT FILE plrobjs/P-T/perip.objs (5): Too many open files Wed Feb 12 00:09:45 :: Perip entering game with no equipment. It's not a permissions problem, obviously. It looks to me like you can tell when this happened to within 5 seconds. You can also see that the reason you can't save any files is "Too many open files". You've forgotten an fclose() somewhere in your mud code. Sam +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | | Or send 'info circle' to majordomo@cspo.queensu.ca | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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