Subj : Re: Door problems
To   : Cisop
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 02:35 pm

  Re: Re: Door problems
  By: Cisop to Digital Man on Fri Sep 23 2005 04:55 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
 > details.
 >  >
 >  > 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
 > definitely
 >  > another piece of (security) software on your system.
 >  >
 >  >                                                   digital man
 > I followed up on SBJ and it does work correctly. On my system SBL, SBJ and
 > SEXYZ all work fine. 

That's good news.

 > It is only Doormud and Trivia that do not. I suspect th
 > were both written with the same doorkit.

They were written by the same author, so definitely.

 > I noticed a thread in the forums on the doormud site about the same problem.
 > One of your users was compliling his own copy of SBBS from CVS. At the end o
 > June, 2005 his doormud stopped working also. The author of doormud was not
 > able to find the problem. The sysop had to change over to the door32 version
 > They were not able to get the xtrn.dat version to work again after one of th
 > CVS updates.

Weird. What OS are you using? I just did a fresh install of v3.13a on Windows
XP and DoorMUD works fine. Here's the configuration from SCFG:

Internal Code              DOORMUD
Start-up Directory         ../xtrn/doormud
Command Line               dmud32
Clean-up Command Line
Execution Cost             None
Access Requirements
Execution Requirements     NOT UNIX
Multiple Concurrent Users  Yes
Intercept Standard I/O     No
Native (32-bit) Executable Yes
Use Shell to Execute       No
Modify User Data           No
Execute on Event           No
Pause After Execution      No
BBS Drop File Type         Synchronet      XTRN.DAT
Place Drop File In         Node Directory

I'll do a fresh install of v3.12a and then upgrade to v3.13a on the same box
and see if there's maybe a problem with upgrading only. <shrug>

                                                  digital man

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