Well, I finally did get jabberd running under Linux yesterday, it was just a matter of fixing a line in the config file. I found this after googling… er, I mean, searching the web for the problem I was having.
Next on the list is Net::Jabber, which ultimately should provide a nice little notification framework. We hope.
Of course being that perl is so damn powerful, it can also be a powerful headache. More to come…