[JDEV] New Jabber Install, etc.

[Eliot Landrum]

You should also note that the mini-HOWTO for Jabber server is outdated and
incomplete. An update will be forthcoming shortly.

Eliot Landrum
eliot at landrum.cx

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, John P. Looney wrote:

> 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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