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Newbie Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 1 Location: USA

I am taking a vacation from the mud I am currently playing, and I'd like to make a script that would automatically log each of my characters and save in order to prevent them from autodeleting. I'm unsure how to script this and would be thankful for any help. Logon steps are 1) name 2) password 3) Hit enter twice 4) save 5) log off and repeat the 5 steps for each of my 20 chars.

Thanks in advance! :)

Magician Joined: 24 Feb 2001 Posts: 342 Location: USA

This is a little beyond what zmud could do. If you have a linux account somewhere, i recommend a perl script like this one

#!/bin/perl
use IPC::Open2;

open2(TELIN, TELOUT, "telnetn") or die "Couldn't open telnetn";

print TELOUT "open <hostname> <port>n";
sleep 5;
print TELOUT "<char name>n<password>nn";
sleep 3;
print TELOUT "nnnsavenquitn";
close TELIN;
close TELOUT;

you can do a couple other things with a script like this one, for instance, having it read the names of the characters from a file, and entering a loop of connecting/saving/disconnecting each one. You can read from TELIN and look for any specific patterns that might be of note (checking to make sure it saves, etc.). Your other option is a vbscript that runs independantly of zmud. It could open zmud as a COM object and perform the necessary steps. the upside would be running it on your own computer, but i have no clue how to go about it.

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salford.cslab.uky.edu:4000

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

Depends how long you plan to leave it unattended. Lets say you go around the world in eighty days in a hot air balloon.

As long as you can leave zMud running on a machine with an active internet connection, you can easily have it cycle through accounts.

Something like this:

#VAR Accounts {Thumper|Baby|Tarzan|Zugg|Darker}
#VAR Passwords {rocks1|isspecial|swing|r0xr0x|test1test}
#VAR Current 1
#VAR DoneKeepAlive 0

#TRIGGER {Your name} {%item(@Accounts,@Current)} {nocr|prompt}
#TRIGGER {Your password} {%item(@Passwords,@Current);#CR;#CR;save;rent} {nocr|prompt}

#ALIAS ATDISCONNECT {#IF (!@DoneKeepAlive) {#ADD Current 1;#IF (@Current > %numitems(@Accounts)) {#VAR Current 1;#VAR DoneKeepALive 1} {#MENU {File|Reconnect}}}

#ALARM 5:00:00 {#VAR DoneKeepAlive 0;#MENU {File|Reconnect}}

This "should" spam the mud at 5am and cycle all the characters in @Accounts. At this rate the staff logged
in at that time will start considering implementing archiving characters or request you
cycle them weekly/monthly.

Add checking for last time you cycled the accounts, check it versus the current day and decide if it has been a week/month etc and do the cycle again?

Ton Diening

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

ZMud can do anything you can think up, Emit, it's just that more than a few things are just not coded or not coded in a way to make it easy/viable. Thus, the path from A to B might take you through X, Y, and Z.

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

Magician Joined: 24 Feb 2001 Posts: 342 Location: USA

lol, good point! Thats a very neat script, Ton. I was trying to think of a way to activate stored sessions, instead of using the same session with different autologin commands each time. Should turn off autoreconnect to use this script?

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salford.cslab.uky.edu:4000

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5187

Autoreconnect should be left on. However the script needs some minor changes. I won't tell the solution, but the problem is in the use of the atdisconnect alias. This alias is actually executed when no connection has been established. The alias gets executed each time a connection attempt ends; irregardless of whether that attempt succeed for 3 hours or failed after 10 seconds. So a few changes will produce a script that is capable of assuring connection to the mud and will change which character is connected only after successful connections of that character...another counter, and moving a few commands around is all that is needed (hint, hint, nudge, nudge).