What the $@&*! does "You are schizophrenic." mean??!!

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6 total messages Started by Sean Casey Sun, 21 Jul 1985 02:49

#352

Author: Sean Casey
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1985 02:49

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I installed and am administrating empire for ukma.  Occasionally one
of the players here get's the message "You are schizophrenic." when
logging into her country.  What the $@&*! does that mean???  It's not
documented anywhere, I can't come up with a reasonable explanation
for it, and I have no source (of course).  What does it mean, and how
do I fix it?

Sean

"Use the Source, Luke"


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Re: What the $@&*! does "You are schizophrenic." mean??!!

#353

Author: Chris Metcalf
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1985 11:42

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"You are schizophrenic."  This message means that you are running Empire
in the background.  Thus, if you write a shell script

Empire "country name" password >/dev/null <<_empire_
map #1 >map
census #1 >census
commodity #1 >commodity
quit
_empire_

and run it in the background, you'll get this message if you try to log
in while the script is running.

Unfortunately, it can also happen that you get tossed out of Empire without
doing a quit or ^D (e.g., your terminal hangs up).  When this happens, you
should wait (sometimes as long as an hour), and eventually Empire will 
realize that you're not playing.  What's more, it usually won't even reduce
your login time when this happens.

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Chris Metcalf (metcalf@ucbmiro.BERKELEY)	     ...!ucbvax!ucbmiro!metcalf

Re: What the $@&*! does "You are schizophrenic." mean??!!

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Author: Ben Liberman
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1985 15:37

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This happens when someone logs out unconventionally (ie. via ESC, BREAK,
etc.) and the game thinks that they are still there (I call this "leaving
a ghost").  Since it doesn't want someone to get double time by logging
on with two terminals, it doesn't let them in, claiming that they are schitzoid.
(since they exist twice, they are in a sense, schitzofrenic) Am I
making any sense?  Am I being any help?  I often had this problem myself
(when we had a game going on) and I'm not sure how to fix it.  I think that
the "DEITY" must clear this up.  I was never able to.

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Re: What the $@&*! does "You are schizophrenic." mean??!!

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Author: Warren J. Madden
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1985 15:11

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[Bring back exchanges!]

	The words "you are schizophrenic" come up when empire thinks you
are trying to log into it more than once.  This happens most frequently
to me when I try to enter empire when one of my 'bureaucrats' (as I call
the scripts I run periodically using 'at' to update my country) is still
running inside empire.

	One time, however, empire glitched and kept telling me that I
was logged in even though I wasn't.  Even running 'fixup' and making
sure the the nation data file didn't believe I was on didn't help.
(Isn't it amazing what one can do with the root password, the 'su'
command, and the fact the the 'empnat' file in the data directory
doesn't encrypt players passwords? :-)  It finally believed that I
wasn't logged on when all other players had logged out.

Warren J. Madden

Re: What the $@&*! does "You are schizop

#357

Author: jay
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1985 18:46

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	There is also a program called 'therapy' available which
	corrects this schizophrenic condition.  If requested, I could
	submit a copy of the source to this newsgroup or mail to requestors.


	Jay Phillips
	HP Portable Computer Div.
	hp-pcd!jay

Re: What the $@&*! does "You are schizop

#362

Author: Wen Tsao
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1985 05:21

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    There was a message stating a file called THERAPY could be posted
    to this newsgroup that would be nice and If you could send me a copy
    that would also be appreciated.  
 
                              Thank you

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