Year: 2005

Gaim with SSL on Slackware-Current

Recently, Pat removed Mozilla-1.7.5 from Slackware-Current and replaced it with Mozilla-Firefox-1.0.1. I use a Jabber server that only accepts SSL connections, and after the upgrade to Mozilla-Firefox, Gaim failed to connect with the error, “SSL support unavailable”.

root@slack 11:51:10 ~ # echo /usr/lib/firefox >> /etc/ld.so.conf
root@slack 11:51:21 ~ # ldconfig

Gaim finds the nss and nsspr libs and the connection works perfectly, again 🙂

Slackware Update

Patrick V. is slowly working back into the swing of things. The slacksec.org folks have moved their site to another host, and the donated server will be retired. My mirror may be dated, since name resolution for slacksec.org failed for many days, and I disabled my sync script, after tiring of the error emails. I will check out their rsync setup in a day or so.

I wish Patrick the very best, and a steady recovery.