Administrator's Guide to MOZ (Moo in OZ).

This is the Administrator's Gudie for MOZ (Moo in OZ). MOO is Mud Object Oriented. MUD is Multi-User Dungeon or Dimension. In general, a MUD is a multi-user text-based virtual environment. For information on MUDs in general, see <http://www.godlike.com/muds/> or your local search engine. For information on MOOs, see <http://www.moo.mud.org/moo-faq/>.

Oz is a multi-paradigmatic language that happens not to suck. See <http://www.mozart-oz.org/>.

• Programs: The actual "binary" programs that are used to run a MOZ, and their command line arguments.

• Administration Commands: Commands of relevance only to MOZ administrators. They generally require Wizard privledges.

• Unsorted: Point-form notes that haven't been fully fleshed out.

• Command Index: Index of all commands defined in this document.

Programs

new_moz

*** Unfinished

new_moz creates an entirely new MOZ database, destroying anything that was there before.

moz

*** Unfinished

moz is the normal MOZ program.

Command Line Arguments

Both moz and new_moz take the same command line arguments, except that only new_moz takes the -quiet argument.

-debug

Argument

Specifies the level of debugging. Values are debug, info, warn, error, and critical. The default is warn. For whatever level is selected, that level of log message and above (above meaning "less verbose" or "more severe") are printed.

-port

Argument

Specifies the port to make available for player connections.

-rootdir

Argument

Specifies the directory to find the MOZ data files in, i.e. the directory above db/ and classes/ and functors/.

-quiet

Argument

Used only by new_moz, causes new_moz to not complain about how you're about to destroy everything.

Administration Commands

reload all [classes]

Command

Re-reads all of the .class files and runs upgrade on every object in the MOZ except the Storage object. So, basically, refreshes all of the running MOZ's code. Used after upgrades and such.

bless type object

Command

Used to bless an object with special capabilities, generally on the Storage object. Possible Types Gate Gives a Gate the ability to take tickets from URLs and use them. Terminus Gives a Terminus the ability to write a pickle file for itself. Note that to be useful, the pickle file will have to be web-accessible in some fashion.

Unsorted

• How to find players and objects.
• About object file numbers?
• How to kick players.

Command Index

• bless: Administration Commands
• reload all [classes]: Administration Commands