Re: Jabber?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>]

In message <20030318004326.GE1232@think.thunk.org>, "Theodore Ts'o" writes:

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>
>I've wasted two hours trying to get some kind of jabber client
>(gabber, psi, tkabber) working under Debian/testing.
>
>Gabber crashes with a segmentation fault.
>
>I tried briefly to use tkabber, but abandoned it after it started
>spewing in a loop (also failing).  I also wasn't convinced that it was
>in fact using SSL, and decided I didn't want to take the chance that
>it was spewing a password all over the terminal room network mu
>
>I also tried psi, and it kvetched about an "invalid SSL store", with
>no explanations about how to fix it.
>
>At this point, it's consumed more time than I can afford to allocate
>to this, so I've given up.  Perry is sitting next to me in the
>terminal room, and he's also be trying (with great amounts of
>frustration) to get gabber working on his netbsd system.
>

Odd -- I built gabber from NetBSD's pkgsrc (which I assume is what 
Perry did) and it (mostly) just worked.  The hard part was 
understanding the registration and naming conventions.  But the code is 
running fine.  Ditto psi, once I persuaded libqssl to compile.


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