Not sure if this is intended, but just wanted to understand why.
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epmd daemon doesn't stop when I run /etc/init.d/ejabberd stop
Submitted by chris6w on Mon, 2013-01-28 06:39
epmd is started automatically
epmd is started automatically by Erlang/OTP, probably in their mailing lists other people asked that beore.
If your only erlang application is ejabberd, then you can stop epmd when ejabberd stops. For example, ejabberdctl included in the source code package tries to stop it.