Hi,

I'm looking to send warning/error messages via Instant Messenger
(AIM,YIM,MSN) or any suppored IM. Is there a solution for this?

d_dave@my-deja.com wrote:
> I'm looking to send warning/error messages via Instant Messenger
> (AIM,YIM,MSN) or any suppored IM. Is there a solution for this?

Licq (http://www.licq.org) uses a plugin-based approach: the
primary executable handles protocol connections, and loads UI
plugins. There are console, Qt and GTK plugins. The primary
executable also provides a FIFO in ~/.licq that can accept
commands (such as to send messages).

This could probably do what you want. It works quite well
with ICQ out of the box, and there is also support for MSN
however I've had little luck it getting it to work properly
on Solaris.

If you do try build it on x86, you will have to manually edit
the configure scripts to remove the -mimpure-text compiler
flag; it assumes sparc if run on Solaris.

Eric

thanks for the link. will I be able to send IMs via commandline? i'll
check out the package myself but im hoping for a quick answer.

I found a solution.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/aimd/

aimd is a system for sending AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) messages from
the command line or from shell scripts.

d_dave@my-deja.com wrote:
> thanks for the link. will I be able to send IMs via commandline? i'll
> check out the package myself but im hoping for a quick answer.

Thats what the FIFO is for. You can do something to the
effect of:

echo 'SENDMSG 1234567 Warning! ...' > ~/.licq/licq.fifo

Eric

I couldn't get aimd to work with Net::Aim. You may need to install
Net::OSCAR and edit aimd for this.