[JDEV] Jabber in a kiosk environment

Jan Peter Hecking jhecking at netgaroo.com
Thu Nov 29 03:24:48 CST 2001


On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:32:00AM -0500, Oliver Jones wrote:
> At 02:15 PM 11/22/01 +0100, Jan Peter Hecking wrote:
> >I therefore need to
> >implement a solution that removes unused accounts after a certain amount
> >of time (like a few days initially).
> 
> We do this.  We use the file-system scheme for storing user.xml 
> files.  There's a cron script on the jabberd server that removes user.xml 
> files that have gone unmodified for more than 20 days:
> 
>     /usr/bin/find /var/...jspool/jabber.dmn.com -type f  -mtime +20  -exec 
> rm -f {} \;
> 
[...]
> 
> This seems to work flawlessly -- we've had this up and running for six 
> months.

Great, this sounds like an easy yet sufficient solution for my problem.
I wasn't aware that jabberd could be configured to not cache the user xml
files.

bye,
Jan

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Jan Peter Hecking                     jhecking at netgaroo.com
University of Rostock        Department of Computer Science
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