On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:52:40 -0600 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 08:47:14PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > > Do the Jabber packages in Woody come with the modules for acting as > > a gateway to aim/icq/etc.? > > No. > > > /etc/jabber/jabber.xml said to be sure to read the documentation > > about each module before using it, but the documentation in > > /usr/share/doc/jabber didn't mention anything about them. > > That's because they were not packaged at that time. They've been > packaged since and should make it into Sarge. > > > Is the process for creating an openssl cert & key for a Jabber > > server similar to creating one for a https server? > > Pretty much. More details can be found here: > http://jabberd.jabberstudio.org/1.4/doc/adminguide#security-ssl > > > Is the Woody Jabber server recent enough, or are there some > > backports I should use? > > I would say no. There have been several enhancements to the package > since the version in woody. I'm sure that some would still say that > the version in testing and unstable is also not good enough due to > some limitations of the implementation. However, I run 3 different > servers using the Debian packages and have very few problems with > them. > > There are not any official backports at this time. Though I have > considered maintaining backports for the server and the transports. I > put together a few backports for one of the servers I run. Let me > know if you want them and I'll make them available. Thanks for the information, Jamin. I would appreciate it if you could e-mail me the backports or a url where I can download them. This e-mail address is valid, if you wanna take it off list. Thanks, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #32: I prefer an OS made by programmers that needs marketing than an OS made by marketing that needs programmers... http://www.linux.org
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