Re: why does my mud keep crashing every tick?

From: Julian Buckley (s348266@student.uq.edu.au)
Date: 02/27/99


> >This means that the port on the IP address that you have specified is
> >already in use by something else (isn't that obvious?). So, either you're
> >already running a copy of your MUD, or somebody else stole the port. :)
>
> ok, so how do I eliminate the port? It's on a UNIX shell, in case you want
> to know... and I did try changing the port, but I guess i just changed it
> to an already existing one... *shrugs* maybe it's something else...

Try:

ps ux
OR
ps -u <your username>

and then "kill -9" any offending autorun/sleep scripts...

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