I am trying to set up a TinyMUCK on my ubuntu server. When I run ./restart I get:

User@Server:~/muck/fbmuck-6.17/game$ ./restart
Restoring from delta.
Last delta is incomplete.  Truncating to previous dump.
Hmm.  No previous delta dump.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

Post scriptum: This is my first time trying to run a MUCK server. Also, I am new to MudBytes, I apologize for any social blunders.

I don't know MUCK but if it's your first start of the server then maybe you don't want a restart? Is there just a start/run command?

Not that I am aware of. My understanding is that the file named 'restart' is a script that manages the MUCK (start, restart, port, etc.) and prevents more than one instance from running at a time.

Some information I forgot to add: The MUCK distribution is fbmuck-6.17. The OS is Ubuntu Server 12.04.5 LTS

Hmm, maybe you need a starter DB as well as the server?

I have std-db.db std-db.new and std-db.old, and when I didn't, I received an error saying so. I followed the COMPILING and INSTALLATION documentation. Perhaps my lack of experience with MUCKs is the issue. Any suggestions for a MU* for someone first starting out?

When I was digging around in restart and found this

#
# This is the name of the netmuck program to run.  You probably don't want to
# change this unless you renamed the server program to something other than
# fbmuck.
#
SERVER="${exec_prefix}/bin/fbmuck"

So I decided to try running that, which gives me this:

User@Server:/usr/local/bin$ ./fbmuck std-db.db std-db.new 8000 8001s
Unable to open logs/status!
Wed Dec 30 07:47: INIT: TinyMUCK version starting.User@Server:/usr/local/bin$

I have changed the file permissions, which produces no noticeable effect. It does say

INIT: TinyMUCK version starting.

so I was hopeful, but I could not connect with my client and I when I run

ps -aux

I do not see a process for the MUCK.