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I have recently started out on what seems to be a long and arduous journey to become a coder, or at least to understand the basics.

So I have installed the latest version of cygwin and succeeded (finally ;) in configuring and make'ing circle 3.1 under cygwin.

Now, when I try to execute my Circle.exe file i get this error:
SYSERR: Fatal error changing to data directory: No such file or directory.

After running 'autorun', which actually seems to do work for a while, I have some lines in syslog which might help you.
After resetting a bunch of stock areas, there are five lines:
Boot db -- done
Entering game loop.
No connections. Going to sleep.
SYSERR: Recieved SIGHUP, SIGINT, or SIGTERM. Shutting down... (I have a feeling this is where I pressed Ctr-c, getting frustrated that nothing happend ;)

I've read a bunch of helpfiles, some of which actually seemed helpful, but to no avail in the end.

I hope my ignorance is blatantly obvious to someone out there, who will have mercy on me and reply in between the hysterious fits of laughter.

With hope & trust in the mudding community,
Massaria.

Ctrl-C sends a SIGHUP, so you're probably right about that.

Uhm, this might be a *really* stupid question, but did you actually try to connect to the MUD? Because your log shows no connetion attemps...

(Comment added by Lodren on Sat Apr 17 11:36:14 2004)

Edit: I meant, of course, that Ctrl-C sends a SIGINT. Man I'm off my game today...

Well, I did try to connect via telnet without much success.
But that may have to do with me not having the slightest idea how to connect to my own computer. I have to admit I figured the initial greetings would pop up after i ran the thing ;) *Bonks himself on the head for no apparent reason*
If you could tell me how to connect with zmud, secondarily telnet, I would be grateful.

Don't bother replying, and excuse me for taking up space.

I've figured it. ('telnet localhost 4000'... just in case ;)
My advice to other newb coders who want a working base to fool around with: If the help files doesn't help, read more help files ;)

Don't feel bad, I had a similar problem the other day. I
just couldn't figure out why I couldn't connect to my own
server, on my own comp. I was of course using the correct
port, and localhost..But I had Zmud setup to connect through
a proxy, and apparently I can't connect to myself through
my own proxy. :P Not quite the same, but similar,and I felt
like a goof.