ServerBot 1.2r1

[Info-Mac]

Download: http://archive.info-mac.org/inet/conn/s ... t-12r1.hqx

Welcome to Server Bot. This application is intended to help internet
based servers using Open Transport and OT/PPP to stay connected to the
internet. The Bot will watch the state of your PPP connection, and if it
finds that the connection is idle, it will quit the server, reconnect
PPP, and reboot the server. This application is intended to replace my
other server based Bot applications(WebStarBot, HotlineServerBot) with
one that will work with any kind of server application.
This Bot is a simple script application which stays open in the
background. It does this without a real interface of any kind. While the
Bot is running, if your PPP connection is idle (or dropped), it will
attempt to log on to your ISP. If you are connected, it will wait
patiently for 15, 30, or 60 seconds before checking again. It is designed
to act without any dialogs that require the user to be present, so if you
want to maintain an active PPP connection while you are away, or asleep,
or whatever...
This release is a simple bug fix. I have, hopefully, eliminated the
need to double tell the Bot where the server application is. Once should
be enough. Second, I have found the "can't set item name" problem and
eliminated that. I also changed the dialog text very slightly in two of
the dialogs. These were all minor problems, but they annoyed me greatly.

System requirements:
1. AppleScript must be installed on your system. This is a standard
part of the MacOS these days, so it should be installed if you are
running any version of System 7.5 or higher including OS8. I will try to
keep it working for as long as Apple supports OT/PPP and AppleScript. The
standard install of AppleScript includes a set of osaxen (scripting
additions). I rely on the standard osaxen, and they must be installed on
your system.
2. You must be running OT/PPP, not FreePPP. In addition, you must
have the PPP Commands Osax installed in your scripting additions folder.
If you did a standard install of OT/PPP, then this scripting addition is
already installed for you.
3. You must have Sändi's Additions installed. Sändi's Additions is a
free Osax, available from the usual sources (InfoMac, UMich, the
AppleScript resource sites), or from my scripting page at
http://www.inch.com/~tjb/scripts.html
4. You must have Jon¹s Commands installed. Jon¹s Commands is
available from Info-Mac archives or from Jon Pugh¹s page at
http://www.seanet.com/~jonpugh/

For more information, visit my web page at
http://www.inch.com/~tjb/scripts.html
or email me at tjb@inch.com

Tom Bovo
http://www.inch.com/~tjb/adoor.html