On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 7:48 AM dng@??? <dng@???> wrote:
>
> On 18-07-2021 13:17, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> > Greetings
> >
> > I have, at least temporarily, abandoned installing 'Evergreen' - -
> > library software.
> >
> > Far too many books around here never mind a huge collection of papers
> > most often pdfs.
> >
> > The Evergreen 'system' uses ejabberd as a communication tool and it
> > would seem to me (new at digging under the hood as it were) that
> > ejabberd is quite intertwined into this system.
> >
> > Ejabberd was installed as part of the install but then in the setup
> > it is necessary to shut it off.
> > The install workflow used 'systemctl' etc etc as a control
> > I used 'service ejabberd stop' which worked but when I wanted to
> > restart the service the complaints started.
> >
> > Is there a simple way to change this reliance on systemd or is this
> > something better left to someone who does know what they're doing (not
> > me - - - grin!)?
> >
> > TIA
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> Most likely you cannot do service ejabberd restart after a stop. You
> have to use service ejabberd start
> Otherwise you get a error/warning that no running service has been found
> before starting the service.
>
# service ejabberd start
[....] Starting ejabberd...:root@memyself:/home/opensrf-3.2.1# service
ejabberd status
[....] Getting ejabberd status...:Failed RPC connection to the node
ejabberd@localhost: nodedown
Commands to start an ejabberd node:
start Start an ejabberd node in server mode
debug Attach an interactive Erlang shell to a running ejabberd node
iexdebug Attach an interactive Elixir shell to a running ejabberd node
live Start an ejabberd node in live (interactive) mode
iexlive Start an ejabberd node in live (interactive) mode, within
an Elixir shell
foreground Start an ejabberd node in server mode (attached)
Optional parameters when starting an ejabberd node:
--config-dir dir Config ejabberd: /etc/ejabberd
--config file Config ejabberd: /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.yml
--ctl-config file Config ejabberdctl: /etc/ejabberd/ejabberdctl.cfg
--logs dir Directory for logs: /var/log/ejabberd
--spool dir Database spool dir: /var/lib/ejabberd
--node nodename ejabberd node name: ejabberd@localhost
To me this is a dead end - - - - perhaps someone can show me the path through?
TIA