[JDEV] jabber-1.0 RPMs

[Michael Weiser]

Hello Thomas, you wrote:
>> jabber-transport-1.0-1.i386.rpm
>  Do these RPM's also install startup scripts into /etc/rc.d/init.d?
jabber-transport-1.0 does so, although this script's not well suited
for real life since it runs the jserver as root.

Are startup-scripts in /sbin/init.d a bad idea for jabber? You can at
any time use the normal SuSE-mechanism of setting
START_JABBER_SERVER=no in /etc/rc.config to prevent the startup.

If you want to run the jserver as a nonprivileged user, just create
that one and change the line starting the daemon in
/sbin/init.d/jabber_server to

su - <jabber pseudouser> -c "/usr/bin/jserver
>>/var/spool/jabber/log/jserver.out 2>&1 &" || return=$rc_failed

and anything should run fine.
-- 
bye, Michael