Subj : Door problems
To   : Lord Time
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Sep 22 2005 11:18 pm

  Re: Door problems
  By: Lord Time to Digital Man on Thu Sep 22 2005 08:20 pm

 >   Re: Door problems
 >   By: Digital Man to Cisop on Thu Sep 22 2005 05:33 pm
 > 
 >  >  > ~Ever since I upgraded to 3.13 I have been unable to get these two
 >  >  > doors to run, I have even tried reinstall them to see if that would
 >  >  > help. I can run tournament trivia locally. Doormud does not have a
 >  >  > local mode. When you try and load them from within Telnet there is a 1
 >  >  > or 2 second delay and the prompt returns. The Telnet log shows no
 >  >  > errors. I suspect they are not finding xtern.dat or some other file
 >  >  > they need. My config for both programs are below. I have looked at
 >  >  > them over and over. Hopefully someone else can see something I can't.
 >  >
 >  > I suspect the problem is another piece of software interfering with socke
 >  > inheritence. See http://synchro.net/docs/tcpip_faq.html#socket_io for det
 >  >
 >  > Do the SBJ and SBL doors work? Does SEXYZ (see docs/sexyz.txt for details
 >  > upgrading)? If none of these programs work, then the cause is most defini
 >  > another piece of (security) software on your system.
 >  >
 > hmm, SEXYZ works on bbs, SBJ and SBL doesn't, the only security program
 > I have runing is Mcafee Virus version 8.0+ (with all updates), the
 > sbj & sbl was working on my bbs before I put in 3.13a upgreaded

Well it's a good sign that SEXYZ works. But if SBJ, SBL, DoorMud, and
Tournament trivia do not work, then I suspect somethins is wrong with the
system. Did you try disabling or uninstalling McAfee Anti-virus?

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