[TriLUG] Pidgin as a background service

[Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG]

Does finch log to .purple as well.  as in shares pidgin's log path?

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Ken MacKenzie <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:
> > Protocol in question is FB chat which is no longer XMPP but there is a
> new
> > plugin for pidgin that works well.
> >
> > If the plugin is in pidgin it should work in finch.  I just want to make
> > sure all FB chats are captured to a file no matter where I am.
> >
>       Then give finch a try; you can even run it from your account's
> bin dir instead of doing a normal proper install. Only question would
> then be where you would run it from: home or somewhere in the net.
>
> Log files for, say, trilug's irc would be in
> /home/user/.purple/logs/irc/ircusername at irc.freenode.net/#trilug.chat
>
> I like finch because it is fairly lightweight
>
> > Ken
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG
> > <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG
> >> <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> >> > Trying to figure the best way to run pidgin as a background service, a
> >> > server if you will for the sake of always capturing the logs for an
> >> > account
> >> > no matter what user is signed in.
> >> >
> >> > Basically thinking I can setup a script to use sudo service to start
> and
> >> > stop it to have it function as a chat recorder no matter where I am.
> >>
> >>       I am a bit confused since I did not know pidgin could also be
> >> run as a server. I run finch 24/7 in a vm which I ssh into when I need
> >> to post to irc/gtalk/msn/whatever. And I keep logs since it makes it
> >> easier to grep something I missed.
> >>
> >> If I wanted to run my own irc server, I would probably spool up a
> >> lightweight something -- docker/etc -- and run it there but using a
> >> higher port so it can be completely run as a dumb ass user (escalation
> >> of privileges scares me). If doing the container dance, set a second
> >> one to store logs and off you go.
> >>
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