On Apr 14, 2010, at 14:47:29, Torsten Curdt wrote:
> The receiver is in "listening" mode but seems to only listen on UDP port 
> 9887. Shouldn't it also listen on 23052?

Yes.

>> Because you didn't tell growlnotify to address a specific host.
> 
> I did try the "-H" option. And it works fine like this
> 
> sender$ growlnotify -H receiver.local -P secret -m test
> 
> This DOES bring up the notification on the receiver machine.

Yup. So sending original notifications to another machine is working fine.

> (as a side note: it segfaults when I don't specify a password).

Oops. We'll have to look into that.

> But that's really not what I was after.

Oh, I lost track and thought you wanted to send original notifications. So what 
you want is forwarding, then?

> When setting up the forwarding I assumed that all local notification on the 
> sender machine get forwarded to the receiving machine.  So a local 
> "growlnotify" is being forwarded to the receiver machine without me having to 
> specify the destination.

Correct. Only original notifications directly sent to a machine require you to 
name that machine. Forwarding is notifications sent locally then getting 
automatically forwarded to other machines.

What happens when you do a local (non-network) growlnotify on the receiving 
machine?



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