[JDEV] It works! Now, a couple of general ?s

[Frederic Faure]

Hi,

I finally got the whole Jabber server running on a Red Hat 6.2 Sparc. 
Jserver does occasionnaly dumps core when launched as /usr/sbin/jserver &, 
dies when started through /etc/rc.d/init.d/jabber start, Jabber IM GPFs 
very often, WinJab is more stable but doesn't pop up when I get a message, 
etc...  BUT overall, Jabber seems very promising.

Still, before I switch to setting up an IRC server until Jabber and its 
Windows clients are ready for deployment, there are a couple of things I'd 
like to check with you:

1. It seems like Jabber, by design, expects each new user to register 
himself on the server, and then has to subscribe to all the hosts he wants 
to talk to, provided the other host allows this by advertising his presence.
Is there really no way for all registered users to show up in the list? Are 
admins expected to send a new user a copy of his rogue list so that newbies 
get this list instead of building their own?

2. Is group chat the solution? I couldn't get this working. After adding a 
groupchat, no user shows up in the member list on the right hand-side. I 
followed instructions at 
http://mailman.jabber.org/pipermail/jdev/2000-July/002455.html, but NOK:

# cat jserver.xml
<jserver>
(snip)
   <agents>
(snip)
     <agent jid="jabber.ftci.net">
       <name>GroupChat</name>
       <description>You can create and participate in private 
chatrooms.</description>
       <service>privatechat</service>
       <groupchat/>
       <register/>
     </agent>

   </agents>

<dso>
     <mod_time>/usr/lib/jabber/mod_time.so</mod_time>
     <mod_version>/usr/lib/jabber/mod_version.so</mod_version>
     <mod_echo>/usr/lib/jabber/mod_echo.so</mod_echo>
     <svc_http>/usr/lib/jabber/svc_http.so</svc_http>
     <svc_irc>/usr/lib/jabber/svc_irc.so</svc_irc>
</dso>

   <etherx>
     <secret>test</secret>
     <!-- only enable to use remote mode, you should know what you are doing!
       <remote>12.34.56.78</remote>
     -->
   </etherx>

</jserver>

/usr/sbin/groupchat -D -s test jabber.ftci.net
error/etherxs connection to etherxd was rejected: Transport access denied

Thx much for any info
FF.