SneezyMUD is opensource! See LICENSE.txt for details.

-h|--help)

Usage: sneezy [-p PORT] [-l LIBDIR] [-c CONFIG]

Run sneezy, logging to stdout. Ctrl-C to exit.

    -p PORT     listen for Telnet connections on PORT
    -l LIBDIR   use LIBDIR as the lib flatfiles directory
    -c CONFIG   read configuration from CONFIG

Defaults

Configuration	Default
Telnet port	7900
Config file (optional)	./sneezy.cfg
Lib directory	./lib
Database names	sneezy and immortal
Database hostname	localhost
Database username	none (see below)
Database password	none

Note: when no username is configured, Sneezy's MySQL username defaults to the Unix account name of the current user, similar to the mysql commandline program.

Configuration

To change the database configuration from the defaults, you must create a custom config file. Two example cfg files are located in code/. Copy one of them to sneezy.cfg and edit as needed. If you put it in Sneezy's starting directory, it will get loaded automatically, or you can specify it on the command line.

Note: Port 5678 is special, and when Sneezy is run on this port it enables various developer and beta features. Do not use this port for a production MUD instance!

Requirements

Server Environment

• Modern Unix, probably Linux, typically Ubuntu
• MySQL server or equivalent, two databases, and a user with table-level table-level access. See below for the defaults for these.

Build Dependencies

• C++ compiler, probably g++ -- Tested with version 4.7
• scons -- Tested with version 2.2.0 on Python 2.7
• libmysqlclient -- Tested with libmysqlclient 5.5.28
• libc-ares -- Tested with 1.9.0 and 1.10.0.
• Boost C++ library, with 'program-options', 'regex', and 'exception' modules -- Tested with 1.40, 1.50

Recommended

• bash shell and sudo root access

Installation

When these instructions refer to 'Sneezy', they are mainly specifically referring to the sneezymud server daemon program.

Shell commands below are assumed to have started in the root of the source code directory tree. Substitute any changes from the defaults you require, and remove sudo if it's unnecessary. Parts of the command where you must substitute arbitrary choices are represented as shell $VARIABLES.

Compiling

If you need to change build flags, edit the file code/SConstruct.

$ cd code
# -j sets parallel compilation, nproc reports number of cpus available
$ scons -j$(nproc)

This will output a code/sneezy binary, along with some .so files in code/objs/. These .so files are required, and must be located in an objs/ dir relative to the directory Sneezy is started in.

Installing The Binary

If you're copying code/sneezy to a different location, you must copy the .so files in their objs dir along with it. The easiest thing is just to copy the whole dir:

$ cd code && cp -r sneezy objs $DEST

Optionally delete the extraneous .o files:

$ rm objs/*.o objs/*/*.o

/lib - Flat Files

The 'lib' dir, as it is known, contains various text and data files that Sneezy reads and occasionally writes. To keep paths simple in the source code, Sneezy changes directory to the lib dir on startup. By default, Sneezy looks for a lib/ subdir of the directory it was started in.

First you'll need to make the required empty directories, because git doesn't store them (the .. part of the cmd only works in bash):

$ cd lib && mkdir -p roomdata/saved immortals \
    corpses/corrupt rent/corrupt player/corrupt \
    rent/{a..z} account/{a..z} player/{a..z}

If you are planning to run Sneezy directly from the source tree, you're done. Otherwise, copy the lib directory to its new location:

$ cp -r lib $DEST/lib

Database Setup

Sneezy uses both MySQL and flat files to store data, flat files being a holdover from its early MUD roots. It connects to MySQL over TCP, so make sure your database server's bind-address config option is set to localhost or 127.0.0.1.

Create Databases

The names can be changed in the config file:

$ sudo mysql -e "CREATE DATABASE sneezy ; CREATE DATABASE immortal ;"

Create User

If you're using the defaults (no username/pw), set [username] below to the Unix account sneezy will be running as, and create a no-password user:

$ sudo mysql -e "CREATE USER '$USERNAME'@'localhost'"

Without a password, anyone who can connect to MySQL can log in as this user. If this is a problem, set a password for the database user instead:

$ sudo mysql -e "CREATE USER '$USERNAME'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '$PASSWORD'"

Set Database Permissions

$ sudo mysql -e "GRANT ALL on sneezy.* to '$USERNAME'@'localhost' ;" \
            -e "GRANT ALL on immortal.* to '$USERNAME'@'localhost' ;"

Technically Sneezy itself (probably) only needs SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT permissions, if you use some other user to create the tables and populate the initial database.

Initial SQL Data

The initial database contents are loaded from files containing valid SQL, one per file. They are in MySQL dialect (mostly originating from mysqldump) and can be loaded simply by piping them into the mysql command. The files are grouped by three main phases, which must be loaded in order:

1. Table creation (sql_tables)
2. View creation (sql_views)
3. Data insertion (sql_data)

Since Sneezy uses two databases, they are further divided by which database they belong to, into sneezy and immortal dirs. So, we end up with the following very complicated chunk of shell code to load it all correctly:

$ for db in immortal sneezy ; do
    for phase in tables views data ; do
        [ -d "_Setup-data/sql_$phase/$db" ] || continue
        for sql in _Setup-data/sql_$phase/$db/*.sql ; do
            echo "loading '$sql'"
            mysql $db < $sql
        done
    done
done

Running

When run, Sneezy will print copious logs to stdout, and can be safely shut down using ctrl-C.

Run Sneezy in the source tree using the defaults:

$ code/sneezy

If you created a custom sneezy.cfg in code/:

$ cd code && ./sneezy

Database Migration

Ongoing changes to the database structure are stored as numbered migrations in the _Sql-data/migrations/ dir, one dir per migration. The naming convention should be obvious. The SQL statements are stored in one of immortal.sql or sneezy.sql, depending on which database they are for.

Migrations that have been applied to the initial data contained in this repository are located in _Sql-data/migrations/applied/ and do not need to be applied to a fresh installation.

Note: there is currently no provision for migrating the contents of the databases, such as edits to room descriptions.