Hello, everyone. It's been a few years since I delved into playing with a MUD,
however I've never seen this come up before. When I try to run the startup for
Merc 2.2, it just says "charges: Command not found". Anyone know what this is
and how to fix it so the MUD will run? I would appreciate the help! Thanks.

in the startup file there will be a command called charges in there. just comment out that entire portion and it should work. I don't know what the hell the command does, but that's how ya fix it the easy way.

It may also only be one word, I dunno. post the startup script and I can help ya better.

#! /bin/csh -f
# Written by Furey.
# With additions from Tony.

# Set the port number.
set port = 6767
if ( "$1" != "" ) set port="$1"

# Change to area directory.
cd ../area

# Set limits.
nohup
limit stack 1024k
if ( -e shutdown.txt ) rm -f shutdown.txt

while ( 1 )
# If you want to have logs in a different directory,
# change the 'set logfile' line to reflect the directory name.
set index = 1000
while ( 1 )
set logfile = ../log/$index.log
if ( ! -e $logfile ) break
@ index++
end

# Record initial charges
charges >> $logfile

# Run merc.
# Check if already running
set matches = `netstat -a | grep ":$port " | grep -c LISTEN`
if ( $matches >= 1 ) then
# Already running
echo MUD Already running.
exit 0
endif
../src/merc $port >&! $logfile

# Restart, giving old connections a chance to die.
if ( -e shutdown.txt ) then
rm -f shutdown.txt
exit 0
endif
sleep 15
end

Ok, see the bit that says

# Record initial charges
    charges >> $logfile

just comment out the charges >> $logfile part by putting a # in front of it. should fix the problem