innocence.com/TooMUSH

[bryant]

So... yeah. I was reminded today that TooMUSH runs on innocence.com. Unfortunately, that self-same box had a rather ugly disk failure over the weekend. I may or may not be able to recover the files; I'm still working on it.

I am only somewhat comforted by the fine tradition of TooMUSH databases eating themselves.

It might be a good idea for someone to be thinking about a new home; I haven't logged in there for more than fifteen minutes at a time for a couple of years now, and as such am perhaps not the best host, as is perhaps obvious from the fact that it was the very last thing on that server I was worrying about.

Ugh.

Comments

[aelfsciene.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, that blows. Forget about my questions about hope--Gretchen found a workaround to get us into the system, and we'll get the data wiped before recycling the thing. Hope it doesn't take too long to bring innocence back up!

[marith.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're not dead, anyway! :)

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Ouch! I find it amusing that you forgot yu had a MUSH.

I should have backed up those wikis!

[bryant]

Well, don't give up hope yet. And there's always archive.org and google's cache; if worst comes to worst, I'm going to reclaim at least UnknownUSA by hand.

[marith.livejournal.com]

So, uh, what would it take to host TooMUSH? Has anyone expressed interest in doing so?

No, I have no illusions of being qualified. Trip could probably do it. If someone else is willing and has the eq/connectivity, though, we should just beam gratefully at them and throw money if needed.

(Or we could throw money at you, if that would help. :))

[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to do it - I've set up MUSHes before in the past, and am only smarter now. :-)

What I don't have is a good box for it sitting in a stable place (ie, a rack somewhere). If someone has that, but doesn't want to mess with the MUSH admin stuff, I don't mind.

I can't imagine the resources are at all scary in this day and age.

[merlinofchaos]

I have a cheapo box sitting in my closet that's been on the net pretty consistently for about a decade (well it's not the same physical box, but you get the drift).

And I don't want to actually do the hosting part, so if you like, Kirby, ping me over on LogrusMUSH (logrus.com 6666) and I can set up an account for hosting toomush.

Actually, ironically, I think the account that runs LogrusMUSH is named toomush...since originally it was a backup toomush.

[merlinofchaos]

Uh, I mean I don't want to do the admin part. I do enough admin stuff.

[evilhat.livejournal.com]

I'm also happy to do setup and admin if Merlin provides the account.

[evilhat.livejournal.com]

You shouldn't need to bother with a separate box. Too should be able to share a box with Logrus without anyone noticing. CPU usage is negligible and RAM usage is probably around 2 or 3 MB, which is trivial.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Or the six or eight people who don't have Logrus logins could get them, and Too could fade quietly into the dust...

[merlinofchaos]

That wouldn't bother me particularly, but I suspect there are still a few people attached to TooMUSH.

[janne.livejournal.com]

Huh! I'd utterly forgotten I actually have a Logrus login...

[marith.livejournal.com]

Or the six or eight people who don't have Logrus logins could get them, and Too could fade quietly into the dust...

Heretic! :)

I mean, true, we could, if that's what people want. But since there are volunteers, and resources are minimal, and I *like* Too...

[eyelessgame.livejournal.com]

I've forgotten the logrus login and port...

[evilhat.livejournal.com]

I can probably help you recover the files to a restartable state, if you manage the recover the files but the MUSH server thinks they're corrupted.

[bryant]

I'll let you know -- I suspect it's just a matter of whether or not the fsck works once the damned hosting provider puts the old disk in my new server, though.

[evilhat.livejournal.com]

I've put up a temp database on the new address in the meantime.

[evilhat.livejournal.com]

Merlin set me up with a toomush account on maelstrom. If you can recover the files, send 'em my way. If you can't, let me know and I'll set up a new database.

New address will be logrus.com 6660

[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

Cool, I'll let you take it from here. As long as someone's doing it. :-)

[bryant]

Once the hosting company got the old hard drive in place, fsck'ing it was trivial. How do you want me to send you the files?

[evilhat.livejournal.com]

tar and gzip and email them to me? My LJ email will work fine.

Many Hands...

[my-tallest.livejournal.com]

Per the wikis, if you can show us the steps to the recover-by-hand method, I'm sure your many wiki owners would jump in to help.

Also: it's still a delight to see evil_hat posting a reply on your journal. Makes me feel the secret parts of the universe are OK, resting in the hands of relationships between friends I don't know I have, and don't know are talking to each other.

Underscores!

[my-tallest.livejournal.com]

Errr, um, evilhat.

Love, the guy not mytallest

Now that Merlin has a temporary database set up...

[dtm]

Now that merlinofchaos has a Too database set up, could you add something to your inetd.conf that simply cats out a file containing a message with where TooMUSH is now when people connect to port 6666?

Specifically, if the message includes this string on a line by itself:

#### Please reconnect to TooMUSH12@209.157.143.163 (too.logrus.com) port 6660 ####

Then that will automatically trigger the jump to the new server in many clients. (At least, that's the format accepted by tf and by mud.el)

Re: Now that Merlin has a temporary database set up...

[merlinofchaos]

Let's be fair, evilhat did all the work. I just typed cpu useradd and poked the proper hole in the firewall.

I've set up a spot for a forwarder but I guess there's actually a new innocence.com so changing DNS on too.innocence.com is silly.

Re: Now that Merlin has a temporary database set up...

[bryant]

Nah, might as well do the DNS redirect (and I've put it in place). Some people probably used too.innocence.com. :)

Re: Now that Merlin has a temporary database set up...

[bryant]

Yes, if whoever runs Shaddach will stop connecting to that port at the currently very high frequency (once per second, I think) at which they're auto-retrying. As is it's difficult for anyone else to get at the port.

Re: Now that Merlin has a temporary database set up...

[merlinofchaos]

The redirector is now in place and appears to be working.