Have you had any luck in making this work? I know this is a (pretty much) dead topic, but I have been searching for a perl snippet that send GNTP notifications...
Any help would be appreciated. Mike On Monday, January 16, 2012 at 1:49:19 AM UTC-8, Stephen Winnall wrote: > > I have a small Perl script which calls Growl::GNTP to send notifications > to my iMac, which runs Growl 1.3.2 under Mac OS X 10.7.2. The Perl script > used to run under Ubuntu 9.04, but I've recently upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10. > Communication between the Perl script and Growl used to work, but now > doesn't, although I haven't changed the script. > > The symptoms are simple: when the Perl script is called on Ubuntu 11.10, > Growl on the Mac becomes unresponsive and shows a beachball when the cursor > is placed over the icon in the menubar. I have to quit Growl using the > Activity Monitor. The Perl script also seizes up and its terminal session > has to be aborted. I have followed the Perl script with the debugger, and > the error occurs after the "Register Application" string is sent to Growl > using IO::Socket. The Perl script hangs whilst waiting for a return value > from Growl on the Mac. > > I don't know if this problem is specific to Growl 1.3.2 because I can't > remember what the precise configuration was when it last worked. > > However, for some reason which I cannot begin to understand, the script > did work once whilst I was stepping very carefully through using the > debugger. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to repeat this: as soon as I > switched of debugging and tried again, everything seized up again. > > I'd be grateful for any hints about how to fix this problem. > > Regards > Steve > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
