[rabbitmq-discuss] getting started, broker runs; can't get status

[Ben Hood]

Dave,

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Dave Farkas
<dave at interactivemediums.com> wrote:
> Thanks for responding, I appreciate the help. Here is what i happens
> when i run rabbitmqctl out of /user/sbin:
>
> [root at db1 sbin]# ./rabbitmqctl status
> Status of node rabbit at db1 ...
> {badrpc,nodedown}
> ...done.
>
> Is there anything else I should try?

It's probably bad form to butt in, but is the server and rabbitmqctl
being run as the same user? I just want to exclude the possibility of
Erlang's cookie mechanism preventing you from connecting to a node
running as another user.

Ben