chown -R ejabberd install_dir

sg — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 06:15:59 +0000

chown -R ejabberd install_dir fixes it. Not sure what I messed up the first time around.

Forgot to mention that I used

sg — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:12:42 +0000

Forgot to mention that I used the binary installer for 16.01. Here are the exact commands I ran

>> mkdir Downloads
>> wget -O Downloads/ejabberd-16.01-linux-x86_64-installer.run https://www.processone.net/downloads/ejabberd/16.01/ejabberd-16.01-linux...
>> chmod 755 Downloads/ejabberd-16.01-linux-x86_64-installer.run
>> sudo ./Downloads/ejabberd-16.01-linux-x86_64-installer.run