Administration

I'm a system admin who is hosting three seperate mushes on a win32 precompiled environment. Until know I've started them off using a batch file that one of the mush owners made. It basically does this:

"c:\Program Files\mushes\game 1\pennmush\game\"pennmush /run
"c:\Program Files\mushes\game 2\pennmush\game\"pennmush /run
"c:\Program Files\mushes\game 3\pennmush\game\"pennmush /run
cmd

I'm the server administrator for three small pennmush communities. I've hosted them on a spare box for years now. One of the admins came to me after having lost his god username and password. How do I locate and recover these?

I'm an experienced system admin with little knowledge of pennmush's inner workings. I just run the darn thing. I would like to pick this up but the documentation is too geared to a unix user. I'm running the precompiled win32 binaries. Step by step instructions that don't assume knowledge of pennmush jargon would be greatly appreciated.

Hi community.

I currently manage and pay for 4 websites and one mush. I think I probably pay about $400.00 a year for all of these services combined.

I like these services because someone else takes care of support, security, and patching. I don't like these services because I lose some flexibility.

In the last year or so, virtual private servers have gained some traction - it looks like a year on a vps server with 512 RAM would cost me $240.00 (and my time). I liked the idea of dedicated servers, but they are waaaay out of my price range.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get the text files [i.e.news/help] to format the way I want them to the first time, and or are there any editors out there that would do this?

Dark Ages of Cybertron is in vast need of an experienced coder for various projects! Discordia, the director is even willing to pay if the coder is prompt and knows what they are doing. Drop a mail to Discordia or talk to her today.

Out of sight, out of mind is a complete understatement when it comes to talking about how I completely abandoned this project.

Anyway, I'm back and Rising Sun will be made! Anyway, I've been reading a few tips in another thread and I think I will take it slow. I have a bunch of write ups and help files that I wanted put on a wiki, but never did. So, I'm thinking is this a good idea:

An entry on Raph Koster's blog reminded me of his page of The Laws of Online World Design.

There is some very good and serious wisdom there for people starting new MUSHes. Go read it, and then, if you've got a second, reply here and tell us all which of these Laws you consider most important, striking, or otherwise which one most speaks to you as a musher or mush admin.

This has been driving me nuts, hopefully someone knows what the deal is. I've noticed on some PennMUSH games, there's a slight delay between seeing an object's name and its description when looked at. There's just a slight pause, enough to make the title seem separate from the description. I've also noticed that this doesn't happen on M*U*S*H.

Good day!

For those that remembered Star Wars: The Ascent, I was Ataru there, the Head Wiz. Now those who did play there know that a RL mountain climbing accident took me away from the game and alas the game withered and died. I have officially closed its doors.

I haven't been able to login to M*U*S*H today. Is the server down, or is it just me?