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Hello:
I've got an extra box lying around the house, so I figured I would have fun and went and installed ubuntu (latest version, 9 I believe) and then unpacked Rom2.4b on to it. After finagling the code a bit (moving the externs in tables.h to the end), it compiled.

However, when I am in the terminal and run the startup command, it closes the terminal down and I can't get the mud up and running.

Any thoughts?

are you adding a & at the end?

IE: ./command_to_start port# &

That should work.

I concur, try the & at the end so that it doesn't shut down when you disconnect etc.

Is it making logfiles? Or a corefile?

You might also look at 'RaM' on Mudbytes.org, it's a current version with known bugs fixed (I believe also set up for GCC4 but you got that part down). There's also RaM Fire, a C++ variety.

I've tried the following:
startup &
./startup &
startup 9000 &
./startup 9000 &

And none of them are generating a logfile, which makes me think it's not starting up properly.

I got a clean compile (I get some warnings, but nothing that stops it from compiling) and then when I run the startup (again, stock Rom24b), it says nothing or it closes the terminal.

Thoughts?

This may be something totally basic, but are you starting ROM from the areas directory? If I remember correctly, you need to move the compiled binary to the areas and do startup.

I could be wrong here. It has been a long long time since I actually did anything with it.

ROFL, yeah, I totally forgot to suggest that. It's been quite awhile since I've messed with ROM, forgot about having to move it.