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Newbie Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 1

I am completely baffled on this problem I am having.

I am a wizard on a MUD (rom.mud.de) and am trying to create a very simple database of players IPs or hostnames as they connect/reconnect.

The MUD is based off CircleMUD 2 (if I remember correctly) and the wizard syslog has the ability to see the ips and hostnames of all players who connect. My trigger captures those ips and stores them to the name of the player and any other characters that they may have into my database.

The problem that has come up is that when the syslog throws out the connection text, my trigger does not go off. What is odd though, is when I use either the #SHOW command that zMUD has or my wizard command of echo, which simply does that... echo the text, my trigger does get set off.

I've talked to the main Implementor/Admin of the MUD and he says the only special 'extra' characters that may exist in the syslog are ansi codes, but I don't see why or how that would effect my trigger.

If anyone could shed some light on this or suggest anything it would be a big help.. below I'll give an example of the pattern that is supposed to be recognized:

[ PlayerName [1.1.1.1] has connected. ]
[ PlayerName [1.1.1.1] has reconnected. ]
[ PlayerName [blah.blah.blah.blah.net] has connected. ]...etc

Let me also note that in my trigger pattern line, I have it set up as:

~[ (*) ~[(*)~.(*)~.(*)~.(*)~] has connected~. ~]

-Tibal

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:34 am

#TR {~[%s(%w) ~[(%x)~] has {reconnected|connected}.%s~]} {#SHOW %1 %2}

that should capture them all... but im not so good with the database bit