CentOS hosted Chat service

[alamb200]

Hi,

I have, with a lot of help from this forum, installed a CentOS6.4 server onto my network to host Squid and Squidanalyzer and it works a treat.

After getting another pointless in house email which just cause more bloat on my email system, I had an idea today that I want an inhouse chat service and I wanted to know if there is anything available that will I can install on my CentOS server so that it can host the said service.

I have the processing capabilities available to me on the server so I am not worried about that.

Any help/advice gratefully received.

Thanks,

alamb200

[gerald_clark]

pircd ( written in perl ) is quite simple to setup. I don't know of an rpm for it though.

[fnj666]

OpenFire beyond a doubt. It's XMPP protocol, same as Google Chat.

http://www.milliondollarserver.com/inst ... ntosoel-6/

Pidgin client works fine. I've been running it on an RHEL5 VPS for years with great success. Before that I put one in for corporate use.

[MoonWolf]

And why not jabberd / ejabberd? They are in EPEL repo.