[Juser] Jabber server and client foo
James A. Arnold
JArnold at knightridder.com
Thu Dec 5 14:02:10 CST 2002
>Hrm. Sorry I've been spacing out the JADMIN list lately, but I *know* that
>some jokers on there are running jabberd on *BSD. I'll poke 'em.
Thanks! :) BSD people are usually great so you shouldn't have to
poke too hard...
Jim
>
>Peter
>
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>Peter Saint-Andre
>Jabber Software Foundation
>http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.php
>
>On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Jim Arnold wrote:
>
>> Peter,
>>
>> I posted the message below to the jadmin list and didn't get any help... :(
>> Maybe I need to break it up to be more manageable.
>>
>> --Jim
>>
>> >As mentioned, the JADMIN list is the best place for this message. Lots of
>> >folks are running jabberd on *BSD so there might be something small that
>> >you're missing. You can sign up for the JADMIN list here:
>> >
>> >http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jadmin/
>> >
>> >Peter
>> >
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>> >Peter Saint-Andre
>> >Jabber Software Foundation
>> >http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.php
>> >
>> >On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Jim Arnold wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello!
>> >>
>> >> I've been playing with Jabber in hopes of moving our company off of
>> >> Yahoo IM. Over the past few days I've been playing with the Jabber
>> >> server installed on a FreeBSD 4.7 stable box behind our firewall. My
>> >> first impression is that Jabber clients have a *long* way to go. The
>> >> server was pretty easy to set up. But I do have a few questions....
>> >>
>> >> FreeBSD runs jabberd out of a file in rc.d. I changed the HOSTNAME
>> >> variable in that file to 192.168.0.10, the dummy IP assigned to that
>> >> box behind our firewall.
>> >>
>> >> The note on the jabber.xml file states:
>> >>
>> >> "Currently on FreeBSD jabberd is started with the -h option from
>> >> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jabberd.sh. You'll need to modify this before
>> >> changing below."
>> >>
>> >> OK, that's a little vague.... After playing around I came up with
>> >> this for that line in jabberd.sh. :
>> >> su -f -m ${USER} -c "jabberd -B ${HOSTNAME} -c
>>${PREFIX}/etc/jabber.xml" ;;
>> >>
>> >> I then went through the Jabber Admin Guide successfully, setting up a
>> >> few test accounts from the telnet session on the box and a few via a
>> >> Jabber client on my OS X box on the network.
>> >>
>> >> My first huge glitch came while trying to chat with myself. I fired
>> >> up Exodus on a windoze box and TVJab on the Mac. Everything I sent to
>> >> the Mac from the Windows box showed up fine in a chat window.
>> >> Anything I sent back to the Windows box in response would not appear
>> >> on the Windows box in Exodus.
>> >>
>> >> I tried the same thing at home the night before on the same type of
>> >> setup. The jabber server was set up and running on a FreeBSD box.
>> >> That same box was installed with the PSI jabber client. The mac was
>> >> using JabberFOX or Nitro. This time anything I sent to the FreeBSD
>> >> jabber client from the mac would not show up. Anything I sent from
>> >> the FreeBSD box to the mac jabber client(s) would show up perfectly.
>> >>
>> >> What is going on? This doesn't exactly boost my confidence.
>> >>
>> >> Next I would like to get this working from behind the firewall out to
>> >> the net. The docs mentions this:
>> >> <host>internal-jabber-hostname<host><host>external-nat-hostname<host>
>> >>
>> >> shouldn't there be a slash (/) in the second set of host
>> >>parameters like this?
>> >> <host>internal-jabber-hostname</host><host>external-nat-hostname</host>
>> >>
>> >> The box I would run this on does not have a FQDN, just an IP number.
>> >> Assuming I open the firewall correctly, would I set it up like this:?
>> >> <host>192.168.0.10</host><host>12.100.23.254</host>
>> >> Would I have to change anything else in jabber.xml? If I add the
>> >> above line I get this error:
>> >>
>> >> hogan# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jabberd.sh start
>> >> 192.168.0.10: not found
>> >> jabberd hogan# 20021122T22:57:09: [notice] (-internal):
>> >>initializing server
>> >>
>> >> On my firewall I am forwarding packets for 5222 to the 192.168.0.10 box.
> > >>
>> >> Thanks for any help or insights you can provide. I'm not find much
>> >>help online.
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Jim
>> >>
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