I'm not sure what the cause of your crash is, but logging stuff is not that hard to do. It's as simple as editing your code a li'l. As far as the crash itself, is the mud up for a week at a time? If so, then what's the problem ehh? Most would LOVE to see a week uptime (I've had DR up for a week+ a few times, but only when I wasn't actively coding and changing things to it). As far as startup scripts, I would recommend using the one on DR's snippet page. You'll have to do a little digging, because I forgot which category I've put it in, but it actually does the same thing you mentioned the one on Darkoth's site does (if it's not connected, it'll start the game), as well as offering a cron script for starting it. I've used the same script for the past 2+ years, and have had no problem with it at all :)
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