Re: Replacing Adium

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:57:22 -0600, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

1. Copy the script from my post.
2. Open a *plain* text editor (TextWrangler, for instance).
3. Paste the script into a *plain* text document.
4. Save the document as reconnectadium.pl anywhere you'd like
(personally, I have a /Users/jr/Documents/Scripts folder for that kind
of thing).
5. Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.
6. Issue the 'crontab -e' command to edit your cron table using a
vim-like interface (or if you are unfamiliar with vim editing, use a
program like CronniX to do it - link below).
7. Add a cron table entry to run this command every minute, 5 minutes,
whatever (updating the script path for your system, of course):

/usr/bin/perl /Users/jr/Documents/Scripts/reconnectadium.pl > /dev/null
2>&1

It's tough to find time when my wife is not using her computer. I
used ChronniX, set to run on 1 minute, and I tried it with just
checking the minute. This is an odd application, no red button nor
quit option when minimized (there is one in the top menu). I think
it is running, but Adium doesn't awaken.

I may need to wait until I get my own computer and have time to study
and play with what you gave me.
.