<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:41 AM, Matthias Radestock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthias@rabbitmq.com" target="_blank">matthias@rabbitmq.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Chris,<div class="im"><br>
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On 15/08/12 05:46, Chris Johnson wrote:<br>
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I am attempting to set up a simple, two node cluster on my mac using the<br>
instructions within the clustering guide:<br>
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<a href="http://www.rabbitmq.com/clustering.html#single-machine" target="_blank">http://www.rabbitmq.com/<u></u>clustering.html#single-machine</a><br>
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See the transcript below.<br>
I've been trying to get this working for many hours, with no luck.<br>
I'd appreciate it if someone could give me some direction.<br>
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? �~ �rabbitmqctl -n hare start_app<br>
Starting node hare@Wilson ...<br>
...done.<br>
? �~ �rabbitmqctl cluster_status<br>
Cluster status of node rabbit@localhost ...<br>
Error: unable to connect to node rabbit@localhost: nodedown<br>
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Notice the difference in host name in the last two commands - the first has 'Wilson', the second 'localhost'.<br>
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That is due to the homebrew formula setting the default node name explicitly to 'rabbit@localhost':<br>
<a href="https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/rabbitmq.rb#L67" target="_blank">https://github.com/mxcl/<u></u>homebrew/blob/master/Library/<u></u>Formula/rabbitmq.rb#L67</a>. I don't know why they are doing that; possibly because MacOS is notorious for altering the hostname -</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>That is exactly why. This can be controlled in the rabbitmq-env.conf file in /usr/local/etc/rabbitmq/:</div><div><br></div><div><div>gmr-mbp:rabbitmq gmr$ cat rabbitmq-env.conf�</div><div>CONFIG_FILE=/usr/local/etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq</div>
<div>NODE_IP_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1</div><div>NODENAME=rabbit@localhost</div></div><div>�</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> you may want to file an issue / contact the authors.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>I ended up with this solution after having people install and not being able to start it up.�</div><div><br></div><div>Gavin</div></div>