[JDEV] New Jabber Install, etc.

[John P. Looney]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 09:24:28PM -0500, Jeffrey Meltzer mentioned:
> We are however having a bit of difficulty starting out, there is
> really no general Jabber list to ask how to get off the ground.  I think
> this would definately be beneficial to the project since there are a large
> numbers of groups, none of which seem completely appropriate for asking
> questions about the whole system.  Everything compiled/installed
> cleanly.  The only real doc I could find was the 'Jabber Server
> mini-HOWTO', which gave some good hints on the config files (along with
> the distribution ones), but, the server still won't startup.  Etherxd
> starts up ok, but i'm getting errors when I try and fire up
> jserver.

 This is something that confused me a bit too. The relation between
etherxd and jserver are something like between inetd and telnetd. What
actually happens is that etherxd listens for connections on whatever ports
it's told to. When there is a connection on the "jserver" port, then it
sends control to the jserver.so - which is a shared library. 

 Think of it like a faster, neater, more trusting implementation of inetd.
Once etherxd is running, and the etherx.xml mentions jserver, it should be
starting OK.

John

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