ejabberd XS package questions

[John Watlington]

On Aug 20, 2008, at 8:19 AM, Guillaume Desmottes wrote:

> Le mardi 19 août 2008 à 13:56 +0200, Guillaume Desmottes a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm working on the ejabberd package for the XS. We'd like to  
>> provide an
>> updated package based on ejabberd 2.0.1 which "just work" once is
>> installed. The goal is of course to simplify as much as possible the
>> deployment of ejabberd servers for schools and community users.
>>
>> My current package is hosted in this git repo:
>> http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/cassidy/ejabberd- 
>> rpm;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/XS
>>
>> Here is few points I'd like to discuss:
>
> I'm facing a problem with my current package, I'm unable to  
> register the
> admin user using ejabberdctl.
> I use "ejabberdctl register admin <hostname> <password>" as  
> explained on
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ejabberd_Configuration#Configuration but
> ejabberdctl silently fail (it just displays the usage message).
> The same command does work on my own ejabberd installation.
>
> Did you previously notice similar issues?

This has been previously discussed on this list.
On Fedora, ejabberdctl requires the erlang nodename as the first  
argument:
ejabberdctl ejabberd register admin <hostname> <passwd>

This is documented at:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Configuration_Management#Small_School. 
2FHome_School

Cheers,
wad