[rabbitmq-discuss] [lord at codeminders.com: problems running rabbitmq on macos]

[Ben Hood]

Vadim,

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Vadim Zaliva <lord at codeminders.com> wrote:
>> I'm not an expert at the macports version of Rabbit, but I think this
>> may be due to fact that the rabbitmq-server command and the
>> rabbitmqctl commands we executed by different users.
>
> I was running rabbitmq-server as 'root'.
> However 'rabbitmqctl' script have 'su rabbitmq' inside it.
>
> Indeed, that was the problem. Running serve as root solved my problem.
>
> I was surprised by that, since it was starting OK and listening to the
> socket
> without reporting any errors to log.
>
> Anyway, the problem fixed.

Good to know.

>> We're going to get clarification from the author of the port, so I'll
>> get back to you on this.
>
> I guess port should be modifed to run server as this user.

Yes, we'll look into this.

Ben