Re: Jabber and transports

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson <dman@dman13.dyndns.org>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:42:07PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
| I've tried installing the AIM transport from agrogeomatic.educagri.fr
| (from their listing on apt-get.org).  Following aim-transport's
| instructions, I added it into the jabber.xml the way it tells you to,
| and I can see it when I query my jabber server, but the aim transport
| does not work.
| 
| Has anybody here successfully added transports to jabber?  If so, what
| worked for you?

Here's what I did to get aim-t running :

Download the jabber source (apt-get source jabber).  Run through a
build so the source tree is "configured".

Download aim-t from http://aim-transport.jabberstudio.org/.  Unpack it
and build against the source you obtained earlier.  This will give you
aimtrans.so which is binary compatible with your jabberd.  Put it
somewhere (I put it in /usr/local/lib/jabber).  The key is to get a
.so which will link with your jabberd and not crash.  (this is the
issue with using a devel. env. like C)

Also get the windows AIM client of the correct version, in case AOL is
still playing the only-our-client-is-allowed game.

I run aim-t in a separate jabberd process so that if (when! :-() it
crashes it doesn't take down the entire jabber server.

/etc/jabber/jabber.xml :
    <jsm>
        <browse>
            [...]
            <service
                type="aim"
                jid="aim.dman13.dyndns.org"
                name="AIM Transport"
                >
                    <ns>jabber:iq:gateway</ns>
                    <ns>jabber:iq:register</ns>
            </service>
        </browse>
    </jsm>

    <service id="aimlinker">
        <host>aim.dman13.dyndns.org</host>
        <accept>
            <ip>127.0.0.1</ip>
            <port>5233</port>
            <secret>XXX</secret>
        </accept>
    </service>


I created /etc/jabber/aimtrans.xml to configure the aim-t process and
/etc/jabber/jabber.d/aim-t to start/stop the daemon.  Both are
attached because they are kind of long.

I also installed 'restartd' and put the following line in
/etc/restartd.conf :
    aimtrans    ".*aimtrans.xml"    "/etc/jabber/jabber.d/aim-t start"

HTH,
-D

-- 
All a man's ways seem innocent to him,
but motives are weighed by the Lord.
        Proverbs 16:2
 
http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/

#!/bin/bash

#
# Note:  this was ripped from /etc/init.d/jabber (version 1.4.2a-10) and
# the 'aimtrans.xml' config file added.
#


PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/jabberd
NAME=jabberd
DESC=jabberd
CONF=/etc/jabber/jabber.xml
PIDFILE=/var/run/jabber/jabber.pid.aim-t
CMDLINE=""

test -f $DAEMON -a -f $CONF || exit 0

# set some parameters like JABBER_HOSTNAME
if test -x /etc/jabber/jabber.cfg; then
   . /etc/jabber/jabber.cfg
fi

if [ x"$JABBER_HOSTNAME" != x"" ]; then
   CMDLINE="$CMDLINE -h $JABBER_HOSTNAME"
fi
if [ x"$JABBER_SPOOL" != x"" ]; then
   CMDLINE="$CMDLINE -s $JABBER_SPOOL"
fi


function manage_pid()
    {
    TOKILL=$1
    if [ -z "$1" ] ; then
        echo "Improper function call!"
        exit 2
    fi

    # check for PID file
    if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
        # PID file is there, is it readable?
        if [ -r $PIDFILE ]; then
            # it's readable, is there a process?
            PID=`cat $PIDFILE`
            #echo "`ps -p $PID -o ucmd h`"
            if [ "$NAME" = "`ps -p$PID -o ucmd h`" ]; then
                # looks like it's already running
                if [ "$TOKILL" = "kill" ] ; then
                    kill -TERM $PID
                else
                    echo "$NAME is already running."
                    exit 1
                fi
            else
                # looks like a stale PID file
                rm -f $PIDFILE
            fi
        else
            echo "$PIDFILE file exists, but is not accessible."
            exit 1
        fi
    fi
    }


set -e

case "$1" in
    start)
        manage_pid check
        CMDLINE="$CMDLINE -c /etc/jabber/aimtrans.xml"
        start-stop-daemon -b -c jabber:daemon --start --quiet \
                --pidfile $PIDFILE.aim-t --exec $DAEMON -- $CMDLINE
        if pidof $DAEMON > /dev/null; then
            echo " aim-t."
        else
            echo "<Failed>"
        fi
        ;;

    stop)
        manage_pid kill
        ;;
esac

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<jabber>
    <service id="aimlinker">
        <uplink/>
        <connect>
            <ip>127.0.0.1</ip>
            <port>5233</port>
            <secret>XXX</secret>
        </connect>
    </service>

    <service id="aim.dman13.dyndns.org">
        <load>
            <aim_transport>/usr/local/lib/jabber/aimtrans.so</aim_transport>
        </load>
        <aimtrans xmlns='jabber:config:aimtrans'>
            <aimbinarydir>/usr/local/lib/jabber/AIM95</aimbinarydir>
            <vCard>
                <FN>AIM Transport</FN>
                <DESC>An AIM Transport!</DESC>
            </vCard>
        </aimtrans>
    </service>

    <log id='elogger'>
        <host/>
        <logtype/>
        <format>%d: [%t] (%h): %s</format>
        <file>/var/log/jabber/aim-t.error.log</file>
        <!--
        <stdout/>
        -->
    </log>

    <log id='rlogger'>
        <host/>
        <logtype>record</logtype>
        <format>%d %h %s</format>
        <file>/var/log/jabber/aim-t.record.log</file>
        <!--
        <stdout/>
        -->
    </log>

    <pidfile>/var/run/jabber/jabber.pid.aim-t</pidfile>
</jabber>

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