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Submitted by kodion on Tue, 2005-04-26 08:18

I get "erlexec: HOME must be set" messages in my logs and my script does not start when run from /etc/rc.local but it works fine when I run it from the console.

Script is below:

##start ejabberd
ERL=/usr/local/bin/erl

$ERL -pa /var/lib/ejabberd/ebin -detached \
-sname ejabberd \
-s ejabberd \
-ejabberd config \"/etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg\" log_path \"/var/log/ejabberd/ejabberd.log\" \
-sasl sasl_error_logger \{file,\"/var/log/ejabberd/sasl.log\"\} \
-mnesia dir \"/var/lib/ejabberd/spool\"

Can anyone help here?...I would like to ejabberd to start at boot.

Did you try to set the HOME s

Submitted by mfoss on Tue, 2005-04-26 14:54.

Did you try to set the HOME system variable? Just add HOME=/home/kodion or whatever after ERL=... on that script.

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Thanks...that worked.

Submitted by kodion on Thu, 2005-04-28 12:35.

Thanks...that worked.

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my earlier post was too hasty

Submitted by kodion on Thu, 2005-04-28 15:35.

my earlier post was too hasty. It had worked without errors when I ran /etc/rc.local from the console logged in as root and the error message didn't show up in the logs. The error message however reappeared when I rebooted the server and ejabberd still does not run automatically

I still need help

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So the problem appears when E

Submitted by mfoss on Thu, 2005-04-28 21:50.

So the problem appears when Erlang is started by the system instead of a regular user. I tried to emulate your problem in Debian GNU/Linux sid with Erlang/OTP R10B-4 creating a new system user with no home, and I found no problems: 

$ sudo adduser --no-create-home
...
Adding new group `bobo2' (1004).
Adding new user `bobo2' (1004) with group `bobo2'.
Not creating /home/bobo2.
...
$ su bobo2
Password:
bobo2:/home$ echo $HOME

bobo2:/home$ erl
Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.4.5 [source] [hipe]

Eshell V5.4.5  (abort with ^G)
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What Erlang version? What operating system? Try what I did, does it succeed?

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Badlop, Sorry for this

Submitted by kodion on Fri, 2005-06-03 09:03.

Badlop, Sorry for this belated response....other things took precedence

I am running Mandrake 10 with Erlang/OTP R10B-4 and I created a test user and successfully ran erl. What should I do next?

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Same problem

Submitted by dieguiariel on Mon, 2007-05-07 14:54.

Same problem here, running erlang/otp r10b-8, ejabberd 0.9.8 on suse 9.1, it runs perfect form console, but no from starup with same message, anyone can help?

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Problem Solved

Submitted by dieguiariel on Fri, 2007-05-18 12:32.

some guys toldme to try with:

export HOME=/some/home

in the script and it works!!!

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