Reboot Countdown

Posted by Xavaier on Fri 31 May 2002 02:10 AM — 6 posts, 27,935 views.

Xavaier USA Fri 31 May 2002 02:10 AM #0

I'm looking for a way to create a countdown for reboot on my mud so when I prepare to reboot I can give a 5 minute warning to everyone on the mud using Gecho.
How could this be done?

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Fri 31 May 2002 02:43 AM #1

Do you mean a warning every minute? Can you give an example?

Xavaier USA Fri 31 May 2002 02:49 AM #2

Well like this:

gecho This mud will be rebooted in 5 minutes
gecho this mud will be rebooted in 2 minutes
gecho this mud will be rebooted in 1 minute
gecho this mud will be rebooted in 30 seconds
gecho this mud will be rebooted in 10 seconds
gecho 5 seconds to reboot
gecho 4 seconds to reboot
gecho 3 seconds to reboot
gecho 2 seconds to reboot
gecho 1 second to reboot
reboot

Well, with the time delays ofcourse.. btw, thanks for the quick reply!!

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Fri 31 May 2002 03:27 AM #3

I would make an alias that calls a script that does a few 'doafter's, like this:


sub OnShutdown (sName, sLine, wildcards)
  world.send "gecho This mud will be rebooted in 5 minutes"
' 3 minutes later ...
  world.doafter 180, "gecho This mud will be rebooted in 2 minutes"
' 4 minutes later ...
  world.doafter 240, "gecho This mud will be rebooted in 1 minute"
' 4 mins 30 seconds later ...
  world.doafter 270, "gecho This mud will be rebooted in 30 seconds"
' 4 mins 50 seconds later ...
  world.doafter 290, "gecho This mud will be rebooted in 10 seconds"
' 4 mins 55 seconds later ...
  world.doafter 295, "gecho This mud will be rebooted in 5 seconds"
' 4 mins 56 seconds later ...
  world.doafter 296, "gecho This mud will be rebooted in 4 seconds"
' 4 mins 57 seconds later ...
  world.doafter 297, "gecho This mud will be rebooted in 3 seconds"
' 4 mins 58 seconds later ...
  world.doafter 298, "gecho This mud will be rebooted in 2 seconds"
' 4 mins 59 seconds later ...
  world.doafter 299, "gecho This mud will be rebooted in 1 second"
' reboot! ...
  world.doafter 300, "reboot mud now"
end sub

Xavaier USA Fri 31 May 2002 03:45 AM #4

Thanks Nick, Worked like a charm!

Shadowfyr USA Fri 31 May 2002 08:13 PM #5

if your mud has an 'uptime' like command that tells you when the next reboot will happen anyway, then maybe something like I did would be useful too:

Set a trigger to pull the days, hours, minutes and seconds till reboot from the uptime and call a Rebtimer script (Make this a perm trigger, since it could be useful to reset the time if something happens like a dropped connection). Add you uptime command to the list of things done when the mud connects, then add these routines and a timer-

Timer: 1 second interval
Calls: Distime

sub Rebtimer (trigname, output, wildcards)
  world.setvariable "Days", wildcards(1)
  world.setvariable "Hours", wildcards(2)
  world.setvariable "Minutes", wildcards(3)
  world.setvariable "Seconds", wildcards(4)
  world.status "Reboot is in " & wildcards(1) & "d " & wildcards(1) & "h " & wildcards(1) &"m."
end sub

sub Distime (Timername)
  int a
  int b
  int c
  int count
  a = Cint(world.getvariable("Days"))
  b = Cint(world.getvariable("Hours"))
  c = Cint(world.getvariable("Minutes"))
  d = Cint(world.getvariable("Seconds"))
  d = d - 1
  for count = 1 to 1
    if d < 0 then
      c = c - 1
      if c < 0 then
        b = b - 1
        if b < 0 then
          a = a - 1
          if < 0 then
            a = 0
            b = 0
            c = 0
            d = 0
            exit for 'Cheat since there is no goto and we can't simply exit sub. ;)
          end if
          b = 23
        end if
        c = 59
      end if
      d = 59
    end if
  next
  world.setvariable "Days", a
  world.setvariable "Hours", b
  world.setvariable "Minutes", c
  world.setvariable "Seconds", d
  world.status "Reboot is in " & a & "d " & b & "h " & "m."
  if a = 0 and b = 0 then
    if c < 6 then
      if c > 0 then
        world.send "gecho This mud will be rebooted in " & c & " minutes!"
      else
        if d = 30 or d <= 10
          world.send "gecho This mud will be rebooted in " & d & " seconds!"
      end if
    end if
  end if
end sub

This should produce the same results, but also gives you a running timer in the bottom left of MUCHClient telling you how long to the minute that you have left. I considered timing it to the second to be somewhat pointless anyway, so on mine I don't keep track of the seconds, but just round up a minute if there are more than 30 seconds in that field. This also makes elimination of the 'if d then' part and simplifies the gecho section, but if the mud doesn't care about you spamming it every second for the last 10, then go for it. ;) lol

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