Re: [gentoo-user] Sending IMs from a script

2008-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:51:29 -0600, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I would have thought this was easy, but I've looked around and can't find a program that will send IMs from a script. I need to be able to send alerts to people from a monitoring program. An alternate way to send alerts is to

[gentoo-user] Sending IMs from a script

2008-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
I would have thought this was easy, but I've looked around and can't find a program that will send IMs from a script. I need to be able to send alerts to people from a monitoring program. -- Neil Bothwick Invertebrates make no bones about it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending IMs from a script

2008-01-16 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
This is what I know from past resources of ICQ, at least: even if someone is not on your contact list, you can send and e-mail to something like UIN@ SOMETHING.icq.com and the message will arrive to that user. For other protocols, I don't even know how to help you. Hmm, when you install pidgin, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending IMs from a script

2008-01-16 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:04:31AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: I would have thought this was easy, but I've looked around and can't find a program that will send IMs from a script. I need to be able to send alerts to people from a monitoring program. I have a solution for you (thought I

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending IMs from a script

2008-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:35:26 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: use perl or die(); I think I'd prefer the latter option :( -- Neil Bothwick Your lack of organisation does not represent an emergency in my world. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending IMs from a script

2008-01-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: I would have thought this was easy, but I've looked around and can't find a program that will send IMs from a script. I need to be able to send alerts to people from a monitoring program. use perl or die(); You could try searching

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending IMs from a script

2008-01-16 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:04:31 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would have thought this was easy, but I've looked around and can't find a program that will send IMs from a script. I need to be able to send alerts to people from a monitoring program. For jabber solution, emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending IMs from a script

2008-01-16 Thread David Lindquist
On Jan 16, 2008 2:19 AM, Ricardo Saffi Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, when you install pidgin, it also installs a text-based IM software, for you to use from a console. Maybe you should take a look at that. Pidgin's dbus interface can be used to send IM messages. The purple-remote

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending IMs from a script

2008-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:02:12 +0100, Robert Cernansky wrote: For jabber solution, emerge dev-python/xmpppy and then use this script: http://xmpppy.sourceforge.net/examples/xsend.py to send messages. That's perfect, thanks very much. Thanks for the other responses too, but I'd rather not

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending IMs from a script

2008-01-16 Thread forgottenwizard
On 23:51 Wed 16 Jan , Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:02:12 +0100, Robert Cernansky wrote: For jabber solution, emerge dev-python/xmpppy and then use this script: http://xmpppy.sourceforge.net/examples/xsend.py to send messages. That's perfect, thanks very much.

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending IMs from a script

2008-01-16 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Neil Bothwick wrote: I would have thought this was easy, but I've looked around and can't find a program that will send IMs from a script. I need to be able to send alerts to people from a monitoring program. An alternate way to send alerts is to send an email to their mobile phone. Tony