Yes, Protomuck always detaches from the console so that it doesn't tie
up the console. As for how to run it, if you run it from within
Cygwin, you won't need to copy cygwin1.dll into the protomuck/game
directory. However, other than the copy of that DLL file, there are no
benefits or drawbacks for either method of running the server.

If Protomuck fails to actually start, there should be a reason for it
in the logs/status or logs/protomuck.err. I had similar troubles
originally when running a recently compiled protomuck, but I was
unfortunately unable to ever pinpoint what caused it. Out of the blue
it started to work.

- Kalzarius

--- shirra_whitefur <shirra_whitefur@...> wrote:
>
>
> --- In protomuck@yahoogroups.com, Peter Swales
> <peter_swales4000@b...>
> wrote:
> > go to www.cygwin.com and download cygwin, make sure you get
> autoconf, make, gcc, and tcsh, then copy the protomuck dir into the
> home directory created when running cygwin and follow the
> instructions
> in the install file, it should woirk as instructed, if need anymore
> help I can send you a tar file of an already compiled muck for cygwin
> >
>
> Well, as I searched the messages here before, that's about exactly
> what I did already. ^_^
> As it is though.. I'd be happy to try a compiled version, indeed.
> But I've got a few questions...
> Is that 'detach from console' thing normal? As it yields one no
> information at all of viable sort to look at. o.o
> Is, 'protomuck data/proto-in.db data/proto-out.db 9999' a good
> example of a 'proper' command line? I'm mainly curious as to making
> sure of how to point it at the databases, if there's any quirky
> syntax
> involved..
> And finally, would you recommend running the muck from inside
> cygwin or from windows.. and if from cygwin, do you need to keep the
> cygwin console shell window open?
>
> Thanks again. ^_^
>
> - Shirra
>
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