From: Peter Ajamian <peter@pajamian.dhs.org>

This is something I did a few weeks ago but didn't get around to
submitting it until now.  Basically There have always been a few things
about the autorun script which have always irked me, this "improved"
version is my attempt to correct those deficiencies as well as to add a
little bit of extra functionality to the script.  The script addresses
the following deficiencies:
- syslog rotation:  When a new MUD is started an error is produced
  during the syslog rotation after the first 6 times the MUD is run.  This
  is because there is no check for the existance of the files being
  rotated.
- autorun crashes append to log instead of rotating: If autorun crashes,
  or is manually killed, or a server reboot is done without first shutting
  down the MUD then the new syslog will continue to append to the old one
  instead of rotating the syslogs and starting a fresh one.  This is
  because the syslogs are currently rotated only _after_ the mud is
  properly shut down.  To correct for this I have allowed for syslog
  rotation before the MUD boots as well.  Also this script will detect
  improper shutdown of autorun and make a note in the syslog before
  rotating them.
- Better customization of grep-generated logs:  Various options have been
  added to the autorun script to allow for easy customization of
  grep-generated logs.  See the comments in the script for details.

You may want to do some compatibility testing on varying platforms
because this uses various commands that were are not present in the
current autorun (cut, mktemp, and maybe others I can't think of now). 
This script also uses functions.