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| author | Badlop <badlop@process-one.net> | 2011-09-06 13:39:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Badlop <badlop@process-one.net> | 2011-09-06 13:40:04 +0200 |
| commit | b017702a15c0836d4ad6b42020b96e2f6845b423 (patch) | |
| tree | 85fb776df664930c04060e9d0cf5eafd8372021e /doc/guide.tex | |
| parent | Fix SCRAM to support attributes which value has only one character (diff) | |
Clarification about system user of ejabberd.init
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guide.tex | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guide.tex b/doc/guide.tex index 0c9483c2b..28be76c66 100644 --- a/doc/guide.tex +++ b/doc/guide.tex @@ -251,8 +251,9 @@ and for example it doesn't read the file ejabberdctl.cfg. 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). -Create a system user called \term{ejabberd}; -it will be used by the script to start the server. +Create a system user called \term{ejabberd}, +give it write access to the directories \term{database/} and \term{logs/}, and set that as home; +the script will start the server with that user. Then you can call \term{/etc/inid.d/ejabberd start} as root to start the server. If \term{ejabberd} doesn't start correctly in Windows, |