Tx perl auto idlekick script setup question.

[lakosked]

OK, I've tried these idle kickers I've found out there:
idlekick_0_5b.zip
CYTS

Both of these work fine but they are manual kickers. I've found a post asking about auto kickers and in that post Tx recommends using his perl script. I'm not familiar with how perl scripts need to be set up. I noticed that the first line of his script refers to a path of C:\perl is this a windows only script or can something be changed to make it work on a unix TS server. Or does it matter whether or not it is run on the same machine as the server?

I've installed perl on my windows machine and tried using the script to connect to my Linux Ts server. No luck. I tried making the script a bat file. That didnt work either. How is this script supposed to be setup?

Thanks in advance!

[Cyrus]

Hmm, I don't know about this perl script by TX but I know the following software that (as I remember right is also able to do this):

http://forum.goteamspeak.com/showthread.php?t=28685 (Java, multi platform)
http://forum.goteamspeak.com/showthread.php?t=22911 (Perl, multi platform)
http://forum.goteamspeak.com/showthread.php?t=27835 (Visual Basic, Windows)

[Brain]

I don't think an idle kicking script would do anything overly fancy, so replacing the shebang with #!/path/to/perl should suffice.

If you're running this on a Linux/Unix/BSD platform: make sure you save the file using Unix linebreaks (ASCII character 10). Otherwise your server will look for #!/path/to/perl\x0D where \x0D represents the ASCII character 13. Obviously that file doesn't exist :)
That's a very common source of trouble.