Way to put PPPoE status in menubar

[Rob_Gould]

I’m trying to use the PowerAddons OSAX to make a unix shell script call with Applescript to put the PPPoE status in the menubar. I’m close, but having a quote-problem, I think:

Shell “open /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/PPPoE.menu”

almost works, except that I get the following error:

No such file: /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu

The reason, I believe is because Applescript is treating “Extras” as a parameter to “Menu”. I’m thinking that there’s got to be some sort of Applescript parenthesis or quotes I can put around this string to get around this problem, but I’m having a hard-time figuring out the syntax. Can anyone help?

[Rob]

I’m trying to use the PowerAddons OSAX to make a unix shell script call with Applescript to put the PPPoE status in the menubar. I’m close, but having a quote-problem, I think:

Shell “open /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/PPPoE.menu”

almost works, except that I get the following error:

No such file: /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu

The reason, I believe is because Applescript is treating “Extras” as a parameter to “Menu”. I’m thinking that there’s got to be some sort of Applescript parenthesis or quotes I can put around this string to get around this problem, but I’m having a hard-time figuring out the syntax. Can anyone help?

The shell treats spaces in file/folder names differently than what we are accustomed to. What happems if you use this:

Shell "open '/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/PPPoE.menu'" -- untested

Why are you using the PowerAddons osax - are you running a version of OS X that doesn’t support the do shell script command?

do shell script "open '/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/PPPoE.menu'" -- untested