Question Getting tbamud-3.63 started

Hoping someone here can help me out a little. It has been years since I had done any mud work or coding and I decided to take it up again as a hobby for the time being. After learning that the circlemud name was moved over to tbamud, I was able to find the most current version, tbamud-3.63. Thanks for all the updates on the code base as it sounds great and from what I have seen, things look great.

Now to my problem. I am running this on my own home Linux system. I have everything mostly all set. The package was decompressed, the configuration script was ran, the source compiled without a single error.

Now my problem comes when I attempt to start the mud using the autorun script. I execute it just like all Linux files that can be executed using ./autorun & . The mud appears to start up and die instantly. I have tried to resolve this problem and can not seem to locate what is causing it. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I really would like to get this up and moving so I can start customizing it wit the ideas my wife and I have.

Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.

Dustin

check your syslog.CRASH and see what the error is.

You can also run it manually (not in the background) by using the "bin/circle" command. This will show you the same thing as syslog.CRASH. Post your results either way and we can help you out. Since it is a clean install I'm guessing the port you are trying to run it on (4000) is already in use.

Ok, i figured it out. It was a problem with my linux system and not within the mud itself. I fixed it by rebooting the system. For some reason the system didn't want to allow the mud to run on the ip address of localhost. Once rebooted it worked fine.

Thanks for the help,

Dustin