[rabbitmq-discuss] rabbitmq-server restart also restarts epmd

Mon Nov 2 19:28:02 GMT 2009

Garrett,

Garrett Smith wrote:
> The approach that seems to have the fewest surprises is to kill epmd
> only during a package purge. What drawback do you see there?

- this would still disturb other Erlang apps, just less frequently

- it makes start/stop asymmetric; if epmd gets started as a side-effect 
of starting rabbitmq, then it should get stopped as a side effect of 
stopping rabbitmq

Matthias.