I did actually get it working. The problem was that I had set up a crontab as well with a different shell user than root, which was firing first, and of course the policy didn’t have permissions to run correctly.

I did notice that the client wouldn’t work running off of cron until I logged on as root, and then even after I logged off it would work. I will try the nohup.

So… note to others who might have troubles: It appears that you need to either run the flashpolicyd.py file as root or another user that has superuser privelidges. In other words, chances are you can’t get this to work if you are running on shared hosting, only if you have your own VPS or dedicated server. Correct mne if I’m wrong in that Matt.

Thanks again Matt.

Steve

When you’re talking about having FMud running on port 843 I assume you mean the socket policy file?

Security errors are almost always because either the policy file is not accessible (not being served, firewall blocking it) or the policy file itself is incorrect (wrong domain, syntax error, existing master, etc.)

If it works until you log out of the shell make sure you are using nohup (or similar) when starting the policy file server script.

I too am having the security error. I have noticed the following behavior:
-I set up FMud according to the instructions, using 843 as the port (I have root)
-I set up a script to see if FMud is running, and if not to run it, and added a cron job to run this script
-FMud works fine, happy days
-I log out of the shell and close my putty window… FMud stops working
-No further attempts will get FMud to work, I always get a security error
- I change the port to 4444, FMud works again, until I log out of shell.
- Now no attempts will get FMud to work on either 843 or 4444

So it seems there is some kind of log or something that I can’t find that is preventing it from working on a port it has already run on.

I am thinking that I could set up some kind of hack to delete this log before I run the startup script on server reboot, but I am not sure if this would work.

Can anyone who has sucessfully gotten FMud to work please help out?

Thanks so much,

Steve

Also, would you know if it is FMud or Flash in general that is so pedantic about accepting policy files?

FMud would not connect using the policy file served from that same server (sh.ackmud.net:843) when it contained a single blank newline at the end. Removing the newline solved the issue but I wasn’t sure if it was a FMud problem or a larger Flash problem.

Is FMud sending multiple newlines on connection to a game, or is it just a problem I am experiencing local to a game I play?

Please see here: http://sh.ackmud.net

It appears two newlines are sent immediately after connect; and this has occurred across different host machines, too.

I’m not sure I can help with the client on mudconnect.com as any problems are going to be at their end. Perhaps try contacting Andy at TMC directly?