Service

I was wondering if there was some way That I could make dawn run as a service? (like so it is not just sitting on my menu bar, maybe hiding in the status bar or something?)

Thanks

I assume you are running windows?

What I am really looking for is a way to make the mud automatically reboot if it crashes, or allow someone else access to do it. I am indeed running windows. Windows 98 SE.
Is there anyway to do this, or am I going to have to build a linux server so I can give out shell accounts?

Well running it on a linux box is the preferred solution anyway. But you can always give people remote access to your machine if you want to using something like tightvnc (www.tightvnc.com).

Ideally running it on an autostartup would be nice, but I haven't written anything to do this for windows, since I always use windows for code development and linux/bsd for hosting.

- Kal

I'm not sure Windows 98 supports services. NT does, but looking in the Control Panel for 98 doesn't reveal a Services control panel.

You could take the services.c file from the SMAUG source download on this site, modify it slightly and incorporate into DoT. That basically turns standard SMAUG into a service. However I'm not sure I would bother with 98.

You still have the issue of shell accounts, and the fact that 98 is, shall we say, not entirely reliable.

I would install Linux (or OpenBSD, NetBSD or FreeBSD) on a spare PC (doesn't have to be as powerful as needed for Windows) and use that for the MUD.

Modern Linux installs are quite easy to use. I am personally using OpenBSD which is also quite quick and easy to install. For instance, it "auto-probes" for hardware so you don't need to know exactly what you have. You can use telnet or SSH (secure shell) to access it, so you can still sit at your Windows 98 PC (assuming you have two) and control the Unix one using that.

Ok, I was kinda planning to do this. Thanks anyway for confirming my choice.