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Set iChat status according to physical location
An interesting variation on my piece.
For the record, my script doesn't require cron... I actually have taken to using Script Software's Scenario, which executes the script only upon wake from sleep and startup. Since those are usually the times when I switch SSIDs, it works for me. I'm not a big fan of keeping scripts running all the time, either.
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Set iChat status according to physical location
actually, I can't get your script to work with cron. I'm using cronnix to run the script. Here's the problem. I saved the script in my doc folder.
Set iChat status according to physical location
There are two options if you want to use cron or some other utility to periodically execute the script. Either you can save the script as an application with the ---
Set iChat status according to physical location
I modified the script to work with iChatStatus, a freeware PrefPane app. So it's basically the same thing, only a little less trouble to set up if you already have iChatStatus installed.
This also has the changes that crashcane pointed out (since they worked for me), if the script does not work, try reversing his change.
Set iChat status according to physical location
I'm not a big fan of keeping scripts running all the time, either. After using my own script this way for awhile, I've decided that I'm not a big fan of it either. For no reason that I could determine, it just seemed to stop executing the idle loop after running for a couple of days. It's no problem though, the same script runs like a dream with
This setup will run the script once a minute, which I think is reasonable. If you want to make it run less often, you can replace the first asterisk with "*/N" to make it run every N minutes. For a full explanation of the crontab file format run --- |
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