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Newbie Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 2

Hey,

I use the latest version of zMUD, and I'm an admin on a MUD. I typically leave my 'god' character online even when I'm not around, so I tend to be idle alot. I find that zMUD disconnects me relatively often when this is the case (~1 hour or so). This may be a feature for some (automatic disconnect if you forget to log off?) but for me its a nuisance, and I can't find anyway to turn it off. Any tips? Right now I just have a trigger set up to reconnect but it takes a while before zMUD seems to notice I'm disconnected and trigger the reconnect sequence.

Thanks.

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

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Hey,

I use the latest version of zMUD, and I'm an admin on a MUD. I typically leave my 'god' character online even when I'm not around, so I tend to be idle alot. I find that zMUD disconnects me relatively often when this is the case (~1 hour or so). This may be a feature for some (automatic disconnect if you forget to log off?) but for me its a nuisance, and I can't find anyway to turn it off. Any tips? Right now I just have a trigger set up to reconnect but it takes a while before zMUD seems to notice I'm disconnected and trigger the reconnect sequence.

Thanks.

It's not a feature and it's not a bug. ZMud doesn't maintain an active connection 24/7 the way a web browser does. Therefore, if you're being idle ZMud has no way of knowing the current condition of the connection.

You could perhaps set up an idling system to prevent/limit this:

#oninput {%*} {#noop reset counter;Idle.timer = 0}

#alarm "tIdleAlarm" *1 {#if (@Idle.timer = @Idle.interval) {#noop time to send something to the mud;Idle.timer = 0;#cr} {#noop continue counting;#add Idle.timer 1}}

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

Newbie Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 2

The thing about this problem is that I can leave my character on day and night with something like putty, and I only get disconnected with zMUD. Odd.