Installing jabber chat server module
#apt-get install jabber
# /etc/init.d/jabber stop
configuration files are located inside the directory /etc/jabber
edit the file /etc/jabber/jabber.cfg to have your hostname
JABBER_HOSTNAME (which is then passed to jabberd in the -h switch)
JABBER_HOSTNAME=chatserver.quali.com
Now we can start the server up
# /etc/init.d/jabber start
The roster lists are all maintained upon the server side, in a directory beneath /var/lib/jabber named after the servers hostname.
To check the logs
tail -f /var/log/jabber/record.log
now install the chat client on a windows PC
http://jabberstudio.org/projects/exodus/releases/download.php?file=exodus_0.9.1.0.exe
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