[JDEV] Jabber Advocacy and looking for M$ Windows client

[Julian Missig]

On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 16:41, dman wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 06:58:44PM +0100, Rico -mc- Gloeckner wrote:
> | On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 11:28:42AM -0600, dman wrote:
> | > [...]    In
> | > the page that links to, explain how to register with a jabber server,
> | > and provide a list of public servers (or link to the list).
> | 
> | One could simply provide a Form which creates Configfiles. It would be
> | cool if a Standard perl Script would be in the Dist of jabberd which
> | one just could "put on" his webserver and then let users create accounts
> | via a webinterface.
> 
> Not even necessary.  Just let would-be users know that they register
> through the client.
> 
> | > I do have trouble starting the daemon on my system.  First, it doesn't
> | > fork like daemons ought to.  As a result, the init script must put it
> | > in the backgrounds.  Due to that, the init script has no way of
> | > knowing if the daemon started successfully or not and reporting
> | > failures.
> | 
> | I usually use screen (not having jabberd in the Default Startup, though.)
> 
> I need to learn how to use it.  Especially the "suspend and connect
> from another machine" feature.  I want jabberd to start at boot,
> though.

screen jabberd/jabberd
ctrl+a,ctrl+d
now screen has been detached
screen -r resumes or gives you the list of possibilities to resume, in
which case you then give screen -r extra arguments.