ejabberd - Comments for "Start eJabberd as Service"

Why script just not come good programmed ?

yllsuarez — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:35:08 +0000

I having the same problem ..
adduser ejabberd
chmod -Rv /opt/ejabberd-2.1.4/

ejabberdctl start work great ...

BUT ejabberd.init never start the service ...

some suggestion ?

Permissions

devo — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:34:51 +0000

Also, if you installed on /opt/ then you need to change the owner of those files like chown -Rv ejabberd:ejabberd /opt/ejabber*

Looking at that script, I see

mfoss — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:26:00 +0000

Looking at that script, I see those lines:

USER=ejabberd

test -d "$DIR" || exit 0
grep ^"$USER": /etc/passwd >/dev/null || exit 0

It seems ejabberd.init expects that you have a system user called "ejabberd". Otherwise, the script exits without even showing the help. And you must run the script as root.