Recurring Problem

[rainwalkerx]

Hey Everyone,

I've been trying to get a public server up and running over the course of about 100 hours over the past year and half. Still no luck. Actually, I think I may have had it working the other day, briefly, but I decided to delete the day's work so that I could repeat the "working" process. Now it doesn't work anymore. Here's the error that I've struggled with for the past 15 months:

main@userv:~/eqserver$ ./start
+ LNAME=zone
+ [  = test ]
+ pwd
+ P=/home/main/eqserver
+ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:/home/main/eqserver
+ mkdir -p logs
+ [ ! -e .lock-zones -a ! -e .lock-world ]
+ [ logs/eqemu_*.log = logs/eqemu_commands_zone.log ]
+ rm -f logs/eqemu_*.log
+ [ ! -e .lock-world ]
+ touch .lock-world
+ + sleep 15
./persist_world
./persist_world: 14: ./world: Permission denied
./persist_world: 14: ./world: Permission denied

The "Permission denied" message just keeps looping. I've used a great blend of guides in trying to set this up and since they haven't been much updated (and since I'm inexperienced with linux) I have no idea where potential errors may be.

If I had to guess, I'd guess it was an issue with MySQL, because the day that I *thought* I had it finally working, I think I may have had it hooked up to an old PEQ database (I've been experimenting with ax_classic for the last few months). My eqemu source, including all files, are from ax_classic but, since I've been getting this error with every single package I've ever tried (including stock eqemulator.net), I don't think it's specific to ax_classic.

Huge thanks, in advance.

rainwalker