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first off, im using ubuntu 8.04, i cannot upgrade atm to 8.10 so that is not an option, and im using shadowstorm, which is based off ROM2.4

Well, i've read threw some of the threads that have similar issues, when i run the startup it stopped at the first line, saying cannot find the /bin/sch error. Fine, i changed the sch to /bin/ch, second error was i had to add "then" to the "if" statements, got that to work as well....at the end it wouldnt run because of the end of the file, was suspecting "fi". i added fi, continues to give me message.

Now, i fully understand i am rusty at best lousy at worst and most will say with my skills i shouldnt be trying to start a Xanth mud, but regardless :P IF anyone knows what i should do, please give assistance. Maybe i shouldnt have changed startup? I have it in the /area folder, as nunix's forums were stating was the problem. same issue.

As i dont have the internet on a daily basis, it would be greatly appriated if i could receive emails, it would be greatly appriated, as i have an easier time to FIND the message :P

Thanks a lot folks, happy mudding :D We might be dyin off, but at least we keep it up.

Well, i've read threw some of the threads that have similar issues, when i run the startup it stopped at the first line, saying cannot find the /bin/sch error. Fine, i changed the sch to /bin/ch, second error was i had to add "then" to the "if" statements, got that to work as well....at the end it wouldnt run because of the end of the file, was suspecting "fi". i added fi, continues to give me message.

I'm guessing
/bin/sch is probably a mispelling of /bin/csh.
/bin/ch is probably a mispelling of /bin/sh.

Are you sure you really must be converting from c-shell to bash scripts?


(Comment added by Tyche on Sun Jul 19 14:57:46 2009)

Why not install csh or tcsh packages if it's your server.

You don't need the startup script ya know! If you can't install csh, just use 'nohup ../src/shadow 5555 &' from the ./area directory and that should getcha up and running! If you need anymore help, feel free to hit up MudBytes, it's the board I most frequent (go figure) and as one of the people who made the codebase, it could be hugely beneficial to ya!

The startup script for all rom-based muds calls /bin/csh which isn't installed on a lot of distros these days and has to be manually installed whether by source or through whatever update program you have for your distro in use. The best thing to do is to either rewrite it in perl, php, or bash. There's a few out there. Hope this helps.