[rabbitmq-discuss] Question about configs

Fri May 30 17:22:06 BST 2014

Hello list,

On a slightly more promising note now I've got a working version of rabbit (I think !!)....

I'm trying to get my head around configs and more specifically their volatility (yes, TFM still needs to be R'd but there's a lot of text there to go through !)

So, if I go :

"rabbitmqctl join_cluster rabbit at rabbit2"

This appears to be a persistent change because I rebooted the rabbit service and it came back up fully clustered.

For good measure I tried creating a basic config file containing :

"[{rabbit,
  [{cluster_nodes, {['rabbit at ww3-ukc','rabbit at ww3-ukc-sby'], disc}}]}]."

But all that does is cause rabbit to complain :

/usr/lib/rabbitmq/bin/rabbitmqctl: 1: /etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-env.conf: [{rabbit,: not found
/usr/lib/rabbitmq/bin/rabbitmqctl: 2: /etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-env.conf: [{cluster_nodes,: not found

I'm guessing that's to do with the syntax of my config file ?  But I'm only following the simple example in the manual that says that one line is all that's needed "if this were the only field we needed to set".