Comment 5 for bug 349714

Yes, it's an initscript issue, but the init script is part of the jabberd distribution.
This yet untested patch should fix the issue:

--- jabberd-2.2.5/tools/jabberd.rc.orig 2009-03-31 10:11:04.460273152 +0200
+++ jabberd-2.2.5/tools/jabberd.rc 2009-03-31 10:12:05.196309538 +0200
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ Start ( ) {
   rm -f /var/lock/subsys/${prog}
   rm -f ${pidPath}/${prog}.pid
   args="-c ${confPath}/${prog}.xml"
- ${progsPath}/${prog} ${args} & 2> /dev/null
+ ${progsPath}/${prog} ${args} & >/dev/null 2>&1
   retval=$?
   if [ ${retval} == 0 ]; then
    StatusOK