Stopping PennMUSH server from outside

Been running PennMush for a while now, and I absolutly LOVE it!

I run my own Linux server and on occasion I have to reboot it when upgrading certain things..

When I do this, PennMush, becasue it was not @Shutdown from inside the mush by a user actually logged in, it does a recover from panic_dump when the server reloads and runs the restart script.

I know how to start the thing by running /game/restart script, but how do I stop it from my rc.6 (linux runlevel 6 shutdown script) without actually logging into the game and doing @SHUTDOWN?

Thanx in advance,
MysticTymes

Well, to do this "properly" would require lots of coding, to do things like the requests feature that SMAUG sort of has.

One way around this, however, would be to have a little Unix script that opened a telnet application, and fed into it the lines necessary to log in, enter password, and enter @shutdown. I think that's done using standard input redirection, which is < as I remember.

e.g. telnet localhost 1234 < mycommands.txt


So, your Linux shutdown would either run a script containing that line, and needing the mycommands.txt file, or you would run the whole deal in one line, but I don't know if that's possible.

I don't know how it goes on a MUSH, but on SMAUG the mycommands.txt file would look something like:

myCharacterName
myPassword
(newline here to pass MOTD)
shutdown mud now

Or something like that.

Hope this helps. :)