[rabbitmq-discuss] error connecting to rabbitmq node

[Ben Hood]

Matthias,

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Matthias Radestock <matthias at lshift.net> wrote:
> Sarah Jelinek wrote:
>> I am a new user to rabbitmq. I got the rabbitmq server pkg installed on
>> my ubuntu, Hardy system. I started the server, and after some tweaking
>> to the erlang path(-pa) value it started the server correctly. When
>> installing the rabbitmq-server pkg via apt-get or even dpkg it installs
>> the utilities in /usr/sbin/, but the rabbitmq* scripts expect to be able
>> to see the 'ebin' directory at '../ebin'.
>
> You shouldn't have to tweak the erlang load path; the RabbitMQ Erlang
> code gets installed alongside the Erlang/OTP libraries, so should be
> picked up automatically.
>
> What error did you get when you tried starting the server prior to
> modifying the path?

Sorry, I didn't see that you'd already begun to answer the question.
I'll back off :-)

Ben