settings, crash n'save

[rumpilstilskin]

Hello everybody,

Two little questions.

I experienced my first crash of mangosd exe. after changing settings on ahbot conf. (Auction House patch)

Re runned mangosd exe and it worked smoothly.

Is it bad to change settings after the world has been created?

For example changing settings of mangos conf. or ahbot conf. ?

Concerning crashes, I would like to save datas of players on my server, could someone please indicate where these data are? Cant find them, neither in my client folder or in Mangos folder.

Thanks!

[antiroot]

I've edited both files on my server while running then used the appropriate commands to reload the conf files without any issues. of course depending on what your editing in your conf this could cause a crash i assume, for example if you change the mysql user or the listening port number and then reload something unexpected may happen

all server side player data is stored in the database characters, however it isn't instant meaning a player save call has to be done to store the data from memory to the db, this happens at timed intervals, when the player logs out, or when the .save or .saveall command is used there may be other cases where players are saved, but i'm not sure at the moment

[rumpilstilskin]

Thank you antiroot.

Going to .save and store the files.

By the way, will it be eventually possible to use these players file if I create another server. Lets say I want to upgrade, or creat a server on another machine, would it be possible to importe the players files?

[antiroot]

should be possible, I take snapshots of my database before doing updates / core modifications and i've always be able to revert to them

of course if you copy the database to a server with a newer core you'll want to make sure to apply the sql updates to get it up to date