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@config parameters

Many of the mush’s run-time options can be set from the game by wizards, using @config/set <option>=<new value>. Those that can be set with visible changes are listed below, grouped by category. See @config for details on each.

Categories:

  • Attribs
  • Chat
  • Cmds
  • Cosmetic
  • Costs
  • Db
  • Dump
  • Flags
  • Funcs
  • Limits
  • Log
  • Net
  • Tiny

The categories and groups are the same as those used by @config/list. Values must be of the listed type for each option. They include: , , (Yes/No), , or .

Options which take a will accept either a number of seconds or a combination of numbers followed by ‘s’ for seconds, ‘m’ for minutes or ‘h’ for hours, making 1h30m and 5400 equivalent.

options can be given with or without the leading ’#’, so ‘1’ and ‘#1’ are the same.

@config attribs

These options control some attribute behavior.

  • adestroy=<boolean>: Is the @adestroy attribute used?
  • amail=<boolean>: Is the @amail attribute used?
  • player_listen=<boolean>: Is @listen checked on players?
  • player_ahear=<boolean>: Is @ahear triggered on players?
  • startups=<boolean>: Are @startup triggered at restart?
  • room_connects=<boolean>: Are @aconnect and @adisconnect triggered on rooms?
  • read_remote_desc=<boolean>: Can anyone remotely retrieve @descs?
  • empty_attrs=<boolean>: Can attributes be set to an empty string?
  • reverse_shs=<boolean>: Reverse the endedness of the shs password encryption? (Warning: Playing with this will break logins)

@config chat

These options control chat system settings.

  • chan_cost=<number>: How many pennies a channel costs to create.
  • max_channels=<number>: How many channels can exist total.
  • max_player_chans=<number>: How many channels can each non-admin player create? If 0, mortals cannot create channels.
  • noisy_cemit=<boolean>: Is @cemit/noisy the default?
  • chan_title_len=<number>: How long can @channel/title’s be?
  • use_muxcomm=<boolean>: Enable MUX-style channel aliases? See muxcomsys
  • chat_token_alias=<character>: A single character that can be used as well as + for talking on channels (+ )

@config cmds

These options affect command behavior.

  • noisy_whisper=<boolean>: Does whisper default to whisper/noisy?
  • possessive_get=<boolean>: Does “get container’s object” work?
  • possessive_get_d=<boolean>: Does it work on disconnected players?
  • link_to_object=<boolean>: Can exits have objects as their destination?
  • owner_queues=<boolean>: Are command queues kept per-owner, or per-object?
  • full_invis=<boolean>: Should say by a dark player show up as ‘Someone says,’?
  • wiz_noaenter=<boolean>: If yes, dark players don’t trigger @aenters.
  • really_safe=<boolean>: Does SAFE prevent @nuking?
  • destroy_possessions=<boolean>: When a player is destroyed, are their objects as well?

@config cosmetic

These are cosmetic options of various sorts.

  • money_singular=<string>: What is one penny called?
  • money_plural=<string>: What are many pennies called?
  • player_name_spaces=<boolean>: Can player names have spaces in them?
  • ansi_names=<boolean>: Are names in look hilighted?
  • monikers=<list>: Where should @monikers be displayed? See monikers
  • float_precision=<numbers>: How many digits after the decimal point in floating point numbers are kept when formatting the result of a floating point function?
  • comma_exit_list=<boolean>: Do exits show up like North, East, and West or as North East West?
  • count_all=<boolean>: Does the count of connected players in WHO include hidden connections for mortals?

See [@config cosmetic2](#@config cosmetic2)

@config cosmetic2

More cosmetic options.

  • page_aliases=<boolean>: Are aliases included in page listings? For example, Foo(F) pages: Blah
  • flags_on_examine=<boolean>: Are flag names included when examining objects?
  • ex_public_attribs=<boolean>: Show visual attributes when examining objects you don’t control?
  • wizwall_prefix=<string>: Prefix for @wizwall messages.
  • rwall_prefix=<string>: Prefix for @rwall messages.
  • wall_prefix=<string>: Prefix for @wall messages.
  • announce_connects=<boolean>: Should (dis)connects be announced to non-HEAR_CONNECT players and to channels?
  • chat_strip_quote=<boolean>: Does +chan “foo strip the ”?
  • newline_one_char=<boolean>: Is strlen(%r) equal to 1?
  • only_ascii_in_names=<boolean>: Names are ascii-only or are extended characters permitted?

@config costs

These options control how many pennies various things cost.

  • object_cost=<number>: How many pennies it costs to create an object.
  • exit_cost=<number>: How many pennies it costs to create an exit.
  • link_cost=<number>: How many pennies it costs to use @link.
  • room_cost=<number>: How many pennies it costs to @dig a room.
  • queue_cost=<number>: How many pennies it costs to queue a command. Refunded when the command executes.
  • quota_cost=<number>: How much @quota goes down by for each object.
  • find_cost=<number>: How many pennies it costs to use @search, @find, @entrances, and their function versions.

@config db

These are database options.

  • player_start=<dbref>: What room newly created players are in.
  • master_room=<dbref>: The location of the master room.
  • ancestor_room=<dbref>: If set to a good object, this is considered a global parent for all rooms. If -1 or a nonexistant object, then disabled.
  • ancestor_exit=<dbref>: As ancestor_room for exits.
  • ancestor_thing=<dbref>: As ancestor_room for things.
  • ancestor_player=<dbref>: As ancestor_room for players.
  • base_room=<dbref>: The starting room used to determine if other rooms are disconnected.
  • default_home=<dbref>: The room to send things to when they’re homeless.
  • exits_connect_rooms=<boolean>: Is a room with any exit at all in not considered disconnected for FLOATING checks?
  • zone_control_zmp_only=<boolean>: Do we only perform control checks on ZMPs, or do we check ZMOs and ZMRs too?

@config dump

These options affect database saves and other periodic checks.

  • forking_dump=<boolean>: Does the game clone itself and save in the copy, or just pause while the save happens?
  • dump_message=<string>: Notification message for a database save.
  • dump_complete=<string>: Notification message for the end of a save.
  • dump_warning_1min=<string>: Notification one minute before a save.
  • dump_warning_5min=<string>: Notification five minutes before a save.
  • dump_interval=<time>: Seconds between database saves.
  • warn_interval=<time>: Seconds between automatic @wchecks.
  • purge_interval=<time>: Seconds between automatic @purges.
  • dbck_interval=<time>: Seconds between automatic @dbcks.

@config flags

These options set the default flags for newly-created objects and channels.

  • player_flags=<string>: List of flags to set on newly created players
  • room_flags=<string>: List of flags to set on newly created rooms
  • thing_flags=<string>: List of flags to set on newly created things
  • exit_flags=<string>: List of flags to set on newly created exits
  • channel_flags=<string>: List of flags to set on newly created channels

@config funcs

These options affect the behavior of some functions.

  • safer_ufun=<boolean>: Are objects stopped from evaluting attributes on objects with more privileges than themselves?
  • function_side_effects=<boolean>: Are function side effects (functions which alter the database) allowed?

@config limits

Limits and other constants.

  • max_dbref=<dbref>: The highest dbref an object can have. If 0, there is no limit on database size.
  • max_attrs_per_obj=<number>: The maximum attributes an object can have.
  • max_logins=<number>: The maximum number of connected players.
  • max_guests=<number>: The maximum number of connected guests. If 0, no limit. If -1, limited by the number of guest players in the db.
  • max_named_qregs=<number>: The maximum number of qregs except for a-z and 0-9. The limit is per-localize()-call.
  • connect_fail_limit=<count>: The maximum number of times in a 10 minute period that an IP can attempt to log in and fail. Maximum is 50, 0 means no limit.
  • idle_timeout=<time>: The number of minutes a connection can be idle before getting booted. 0 means no limit.
  • unconnected_idle_timeout=<time>: The number of minutes a connection can be sitting at the login screen before getting booted. 0 means no limit.

See [@config limits2](#@config limits2)

@config limits2

Limits and constants, continued.

  • whisper_loudness=<number>: The percentage chance of a whisper/noisy being heard.
  • starting_quota=<number>: How much quota new players get.
  • starting_money=<number>: How many pennies new players get.
  • paycheck=<number>: How many pennies players get each day they log on.
  • max_pennies=<number>: The maximum pennies an object can have.
  • mail_limit=<number>: How many @mail messages someone can have.
  • max_depth=<number>: How deep indirect @lock chains can go.
  • player_queue_limit=<number>: The number of commands a player can have queued at once.
  • queue_loss=<number>: One in times, queuing a command will cost an extra penny that doesn’t get refunded.
  • queue_chunk=<number>: How many queued commands get executed in a row before checking for network activity.

See [@config limits3](#@config limits3)

@config limits3

Limits and constants, continued.

  • function_recursion_limit=<number>: The depth to which softcode functions can call more functions.
  • function_invocation_limit=<number>: The maximum number of softcode functions that can be called in one command.
  • guest_paycheck=<number>: How many pennies guests get each day.
  • max_guest_pennies=<number>: The maximum pennies a guest can have.
  • player_name_len=<number>: The maximum length of a player name.
  • queue_entry_cpu_time=<number>: The maximum number of milliseconds a queue entry can take to run.
  • use_quota=<boolean>: Controls if quotas are used to limit the number of objects a player can own.

See [@config limits4](#@config limits4)

@config limits4

Limits and constants, continued.

  • max_aliases=<number>: The maximum number of aliases a player can have.
  • keepalive_timeout=<time>: How often should an ‘Are you still there?’ query be sent to clients, to stop players’ routers booting idle connections?
  • max_parents=<number>: The maximum number of levels of parenting allowed.
  • call_limit=<number>: The maximum number of times the parser can be called recursively for any one expression.
  • chunk_migrate=<number>: Maximum number of attributes that can be moved to disk cache per second.

@config log

These options affect logging.

  • log_commands=<boolean>: Are all commands logged?
  • log_forces=<boolean>: Are @forces of wizard objects logged?

@config net

Networking and connection-related options.

  • mud_name=<string>: The name of the mush for mudname() and @version and the like.
  • mud_url=<string>: If this is set, the welcome message for the mush is bracketed in for all clients, and web browsers are redirected to the url described in mud_url.
  • http_handler=<dbref/number>: If this is set, support HTTP requests to MUSH port.
  • http_per_second=<number>: If this is set, limit HTTP requests allowed per second.
  • use_dns=<boolean>: Are IP addresses resolved into hostnames?
  • logins=<boolean>: Are mortal logins enabled?
  • player_creation=<boolean>: Can CREATE be used from the login screen?
  • guests=<boolean>: Are guest logins allowed?
  • pueblo=<boolean>: Is Pueblo support turned on?
  • sql_platform=<string>: What kind of SQL server are we using? (“mysql”, “postgreql”, “sqlite” or “disabled”)
  • sql_host=<string>: What is the hostname or ip address of the SQL server
  • ssl_require_client_cert=<boolean>: Are client certificates verified in SSL connections?

@config tiny

Options that help control compability with TinyMUSH servers.

  • null_eq_zero=<boolean>: Is a null string where a number is expected considered a 0?
  • tiny_booleans=<boolean>: Use Tiny-style boolean values where only non-zero numbers are true.
  • tiny_trim_fun=<boolean>: Are the second and third arguments to trim() reversed?
  • tiny_math=<boolean>: Is a string where a number is expected considered a 0?
  • silent_pemit=<boolean>: Does @pemit default to @pemit/silent?