I'd be less included to run as rabbitmq root using sudo than change the permissions on the requisite /var/lib/rabbitmq and /var/log/rabbitmq directories.<div><br></div><div>sudo mkdir /var/lib/rabbitmq</div><div>sudo mkdir /var/log/rabbimq</div>
<div>sudo chgrp staff /var/log/rabbitmq</div><div>sudo chmod g+w /var/log/rabbitmq</div><div>sudo chgrp staff /var/lib/rabbitmq</div><div>sudo chmod g+w /var/lib/rabbitmq</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br>Gavin<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Jerry Kuch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jerryk@vmware.com">jerryk@vmware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000">Hi, Matthew:<div><br></div><div>On OS X, /var/lib is probably owned by root so if you're firing up sbin/rabbitmq-server as your own user account you'll probably get stiff-armed in this way. Try again with 'sudo' and you should be in fine shape.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Jerry</div><div><br><hr><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><b>From: </b>"Matthew Low" <<a href="mailto:11mdlow@gmail.com" target="_blank">11mdlow@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:rabbitmq-discuss@lists.rabbitmq.com" target="_blank">rabbitmq-discuss@lists.rabbitmq.com</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, July 7, 2011 11:03:46 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[rabbitmq-discuss] Problem with Installing RabbitMQ Server 2.5.1<div>
<div></div><div class="h5"><br><br>Hello,<div><br></div><div>I am trying to get a working version of RabbitMQ up and running on my Mac OSX with the generic Unix version. However, I get the following error when I try to start up the server:</div>
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<div><div>Archon:rabbitmq_server-2.5.0 matthew$ sbin/rabbitmq-server </div><div>Activating RabbitMQ plugins ...</div><div>ERROR: Could not create dir /var/lib/rabbitmq/mnesia/rabbit@Archon-plugins-expand (enoent)</div><div>
<br></div><div>I have the most recent version of Erlang installed on my machine. I think this may be some sort of read/write permissions problem, but I don't quite know how to fix it. Please help!</div><div><br></div>
<div>Thanks,</div><div>Matt</div><div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br>
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