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diff --git a/doc/guide.tex b/doc/guide.tex index bf07f39e..f01dd9be 100644 --- a/doc/guide.tex +++ b/doc/guide.tex @@ -241,6 +241,14 @@ On a *nix system, if you want ejabberd to be started as daemon at boot time, copy \term{ejabberd.init} from the 'bin' directory to something like \term{/etc/init.d/ejabberd} (depending on your distribution) and call \term{/etc/inid.d/ejabberd start} to start it. +If \term{ejabberd} doesn't start correctly and a crash dump is generated, +there was a severe problem. +You can try starting \term{ejabberd} with +the script \term{bin/live.bat} in Windows, +or with the command \term{bin/ejabberdctl live} in other Operating Systems. +This way you see the error message provided by Erlang +and can identify what is exactly the problem. + The \term{ejabberdctl} administration script is included in the \term{bin} directory. Please refer to the section~\ref{ejabberdctl} for details about \term{ejabberdctl}, and configurable options to fine tune the Erlang runtime system. @@ -415,6 +423,13 @@ ejabberd is running ejabberdctl stop \end{verbatim} +If \term{ejabberd} doesn't start correctly and a crash dump is generated, +there was a severe problem. +You can try starting \term{ejabberd} with +the command \term{ejabberdctl live} +to see the error message provided by Erlang +and can identify what is exactly the problem. + Please refer to the section~\ref{ejabberdctl} for details about \term{ejabberdctl}, and configurable options to fine tune the Erlang runtime system. |