Chat

Right now this page is just a place holder. I am trying to get an XMPP/Jabber server and web based chat client to work under WordPress.

The idea is that you will either be able to originate a chat session on the web or using a XMPP/Jabber chat app on a mobile phone or XMPP/Jabber based chat application on your computer or the shell servers.

Because so many configurations are path dependent, and because this is a trial and error situation, mostly errors, it was easier to put the paths into the menu so I can easily test. Please be patient. A general announcement will be made when it is working.

Basically, I’m trying to do for instant messaging as we have done for mail. Just as mail is accessible via the web, imap or pop-3 clients, and the shell servers, I’m trying to do something similar with instant messaging where it will be available via the web, XMPP/Jabber clients, and the shell servers.

System Issues

Posted on February 25, 2026 by nanook

We had some issues this evening that were initiated by a minor system problem and turned into a more system wide issue by a cloudy minded system admin who just got out of the hospital yesterday.

When I got up this evening I tried to access my e-mail and all the sudden my mail was gone.

So I tried to check the size of my spool and the system told me I did not have permission.

At this point it would not return to the command prompt nor would most of the servers I checked trying to identify the issue.

After multiple reboots, I finally noticed ufw was missing the user rules on mail and that was the cause. I suspect the rules disappeared because the machine ran itself out of disk space with debug data.

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