On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:23:09 -0600, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
http://xentac.net/~jchu/blog/technology/jabber/xenophile-intro.html
An interesting idea for remote control and communication with daemons via Jabber.
It'd be nice to generalize it so one could use AIM oor Yahoo or something like that as well... but that's not the real focus, it looks like. It's a messaging framework, and in a way independant of the underlying transport layer...
I'm not certain about the details, but I believe the Xenophile scripts interact with the jabberd server on the host they are working with, as well as with the clients. Its a lot harder to set up an AIM or Yahoo server on your system. ;) I may be wrong, however, the right honorable Mr. Chu can provide more details.
I always loved messaging frameworks... I once made a set of utilities to communicate between some VAX VMS machines up to one unix machine and multiple windows machines... it converted data from VMS flat files and inserted it into either oracle or SQL Server...
Now, if you can implement something similar with Xenophile, that would be great...
It should be possible, from what I understand. The scripts are really simple (Xentac, give us a link to the subversion repo again) The part I find most interesting is getting a fully functional remote shell inside jabber. I guess it wouldn't be as useful as, say, ssh, but the coolness factor is pretty high. Dusty