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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, |