[JDEV] This is the Worst Mailling list I have ever used.

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Hi Derrick,

Thanks for the feedback. Personally I strive to answer all questions to
which I know the answers, and others on this list do the same, so I'm
sorry that you've felt ignored. Also, please note that this list has
split, so JDEV is now dedicated to discussions of Jabber development as
originally intended, and the new-ish JADMIN list (
http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jadmin/ ) is dedicated to issues of
installing, configuring, and administering Jabber servers.

That said, I must say I've built the Jabber server on Red Hat 7.0, Red
Hat 6.2, and Debian but have not seen this ports problem. However, I'm
not a Linux/networking guru. I'm wondering if perhaps those ports are
closed and/or busy on this machine? What's the netstat output? Is this
machine behind some kind of restrictive firewall? Which version of
Jabber are we talking about (e.g., built from source or the Red Hat
binaries)? This kind of information would be helpful.

Peter

--
Peter Saint-Andre
stpeter at jabber.org

> "Derrick (Thrawn01)" wrote:
> 
> I have never had this Problem with any other mailing list. Spanning
> from Debian-dev,boot,user. to dam IBM.
> Every time I post a question to this list. I never get a response.
> This list has a problem I've never seen in any other list.
> This is Bad.
> 
> I have a problem with my Server at current and this is not good. My
> company wants an IM system up yesterday. And I can't get support. I
> filed thru the mailing list archives all the way back to 1999. And I
> found some messages from other people with the same problem.
> AND GUESS WHAT !!!!!
> 
> There posts were never responded to.
> 
> I'm not implying that every post should be Responded to, I am implying
> However, that Serious problems in or associated with the use of a
> jabber server are not small problems. And should be resolved and or
> added to a FAQ or Manual. FAQ's are easy, you just cut and past the
> Post with the question and answer in it, to the FAQ. Wow. that was
> hard.
> 
> Every other list seams to have it together. What is it with this list
> ?
> 
> [JDEV] Unable to listen on ports 5222 and 5269 Sheridan, Dann
> Post on Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:29:03 -0500
> 
> >>I just built Jabber on a RedHat 7.0 box running xinetd.  When I go
> to start
> >>jabberd, I get alerts back saying that jabberd is unable to listen
> on ports
> >>5222 and 5269.  Has anyone else run into this problem?  If so, how
> did you
> >>resolve it?  I've already tried adding these ports to /etc/services,
> but
> >>this didn't help.
> 
> Can Anyone Help this Person ?
> 
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> This has been a Communiqué from
> his Imperial Majesty Admiral Thrawn.
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> derrick at carmike.com