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Online Status Indicator v6.1
September 3, 2006
http://www.onlinestatus.org/

RELEASE NOTES
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Thanks for downloading Online Status Indicator!

Online Status Indicator is currently supporting AIM, ICQ, IRC, Jabber, MSN Messenger, Skype and Yahoo Messenger.

Please send all comments, feature requests and bug reports to info@onlinestatus.org

INSTALLATION
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* You need a Java Virtual Machine to use Online Status Indicator. Download it here:
	http://www.java.com/

* Place the files status.jar in a directory of your choice.

* When the server is started, the status icons are at:
	http://yourservername/medium/name
* If port is other than 80, the status icons are at:
	http://yourservername:port/medium/name

MANUAL EDIT OF STATUS.CONF
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In some cases you need to manually edit status.conf, and some help follows:

* Stop your Status Indicator server before editing!

* If you didn't set up a MSN robot account during first startup you need to
  open status.conf and edit the following lines. Get a new account for this!
  Add your own account and password instead of account1 and password1.
	msnusr=account1@hotmail.com
	msnpwd=password1

* Multiple MSN bot accounts may be needed with a lot of users. Separate them by semi-colon.
	msnusr=account1@hotmail.com;account2@hotmail.com
	msnpwd=password1;password2

* If you didn't set up a Jabber robot account during first startup you need to
  open status.conf and edit the following lines. Get a new account for this!
  Add your own account and password instead of account1 and password1.
	jbrusr=account1@jabber.org
	jbrpwd=password1

* You can specify how many seconds OSI should cache status to improve performance.
  Default is 10 seconds, add this line if you want to set it to another value:
	cache=60

* To add an announcements message, simply add the following line in status.conf:
	message=Your message goes here.

* If you wish to have your images on a separate webserver, upload the images to
  that folder, and point to this folder by adding this line in status.conf:
	imagefolder=http\://www.yourwebserver.com/imagefolder/

* Save your changes in status.conf

* Start your Status Indicator server again when finished.

USAGE
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* Starting the Status Indicator server
	To start the server, doubleclick status.jar
	On some platforms this isn't possible, then type this command:
		java -jar status.jar

* Stopping the Status Indicator server
 	To stop the server, start the Admin Tool, click Stop Server.

* Starting the Admin Tool
	When the server is running, doubleclick status.jar
	Note: Closing the Admin Tool will not stop the server.

* Starting the Status Indicator server from command line
	java -jar status.jar start

* Stopping the Status Indicator server from command line
 	java -jar status.jar stop

* Starting the Status Indicator server with minimum logging
	java -jar status.jar minilog

* Starting the Status Indicator server with no logging at all
	java -jar status.jar nolog

* Log file
	When the server is running, log files are created.

* Auto-starting Status Indicator
	On Windows:
		Create a shortcut to status.jar and place in the StartUp folder.
	Other platforms:
		Edit start script to start the Status Indicator (see Starting above).
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