[rabbitmq-discuss] RABBITMQ_BASE

[Michael Bridgen]

On 5 March 2014 23:09, Alvaro Videla <videlalvaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> The standalone mac release is based on the generic-unix version, which
> according to this page: http://www.rabbitmq.com/relocate.html doesn't
> use the RABBITMQ_BASE env variable

Oh I see, yes my mistake, I didn't read down far enough. Still, I
reckon it'd be worth either making RABBITMQ_BASE work for
other-than-Windows, since it's rather useful; or at least marking it
as an exception rather than the general case, in the documentation.

-Michael

> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Michael Bridgen <mikeb at squaremobius.net> wrote:
>> On 5 March 2014 13:06, Alvaro Videla <videlalvaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Homebrew uses the standalone Mac release behind the scenes, so I don't think
>>> this applies, since you would have to relocate the whole install folder.
>>
>> What doesn't apply? RABBITMQ_LOG_BASE and RABBITMQ_MNESIA_BASE *do*
>> work in the expected way (something I perhaps ought to have
>> mentioned).
>>
>>
>>> On Wednesday, March 5, 2014, Michael Bridgen <mikeb at squaremobius.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This documentation http://www.rabbitmq.com/relocate.html implies that
>>>> running, e.g.,
>>>> $ RABBITMQ_BASE=`pwd` rabbitmq-server &
>>>> will instruct RabbitMQ to put its database and log files in the
>>>> current directory. But when I do this, RabbitMQ just puts its log
>>>> files where it normally does.
>>>>
>>>> It's a (recent) homebrew install, so perhaps the formula is doing
>>>> something tricksy.
>>>>
>>>> -Michael
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