"growlnotify" from v1.2 doesn't communicate with Growl v1.3.1

[raj]

I have an older MacOS X system which still has "growlnotify" from
version 1.2.2. When it sends a notification to my new MacOS system,
running Growl 1.3.1, it always gets an error. I can't run the newer
growlnotify on this system because it doesn't have a new enough
version of MacOS.

Here's the error growlnotify is getting:

2011-11-08 14:25:56.431 growlnotify[16476:903] Exception:
NSPortTimeoutException
Segmentation fault

Doing "lsof" on my Growl 1.3.1 system, I see that it's apparently
listening on TCP port 23053 but it looks as though the older
growlnotify is sending UDP. Is there a way to get the older
growlnotify to send something acceptable to the new Growl 1.3.1?

/raj

[Travis Tilley]

nope! fear not, however, as an updated growlnotify is available. =]

http://growl.cachefly.net/GrowlNotify-1.3.zip

[Travis Tilley]

oh... I think I misinterpreted your question. I'm not sure the new GrowlNotify runs on pre-lion, but I don't see a reason why not. It's using GNTP directly to communicate with Growl 1.3 though, so it wouldn't be able to talk to Growl 1.2.x that you might have installed elsewhere.

[raj]

Apparently, even though it installs, it still needs the updated growl
1.3 libraries to run?

$ ./growlnotify test
dyld: Symbol not found: _kSecRandomDefault
Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/./growlnotify
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/
A/Security
in /usr/local/bin/./growlnotify
Trace/BPT trap


/raj

[raj]

Oh, that test was using the latest growlnotify-1.3.zip file, you just
mentioned, for installation.

/raj


On Nov 8, 2:58 pm, Travis Tilley <ttil...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Travis Tilley]

ah... so it does need lion. The SecRandom API is completely new to 10.7: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/General/MacOSXLionAPIDiffs/Security.html