On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 10:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > 1) I have kopete installed, and I did not remember to do anything > about msn before I went away. Everything was fine when I left, but > now it tries to connect to msn on opening, fails, and segfaults. Is > there any way that I can get in to the configuration file to stop > instant connections? I have looked for it, but can't see the file. > > 2) What exactly is the purpose of Jabber? I installed it so that I > could run kopete, but have two issues with it - > > a) I get failed messages on shutdown that relate to jabber, and they > go by so fast that I can't read them. I know where to find messages > that come up during bootup, but I'm not so sure about shutdown > messages. > > b) From top it seems that it takes up a relatively big slice of cpu > and mem, even when kopete is not loaded: > 1759 daemon 10 0 10080 9.8m 848 S 0.7 1.9 4:31.08 jabberd > so what is it doing? > > Anne
Anne jabberd is the jabber server. You only need it if you want to provide IM services for people. More likely you will connect to a public jabber server. There is a list at www.jabber.org One reason you might want to run your own jabbber server is because since Oct 15th MSN changed their protocol to lock out 3rd party IM clients. However a workaround has been devised for the MSN transport for jabber servers, but not all servers are running the updated version yet. (The public server I use has not yet) derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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