ejabberd - Comments for "Service doesn't start automatically in CentOS"

I got this error:

badai — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 01:48:11 +0000

I got this error: /etc/init.d/ejabberd: line 29: $1: unbound variable

any idea?

thanks.

Related ticket:

mfoss — Tue, 24 May 2011 21:59:21 +0000

I returned to this issue

Ivan Martinez — Mon, 23 May 2011 16:32:18 +0000

I returned to this issue successfully.

The init file doesn't support chkconfig because it's missing the required header:

http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/442412-managing-linux-daemons-with-...

Just adding the following to the beginning of ejabberd.init does the trick:

#!/bin/sh
#
# ejabberd Startup script for the ejabberd XMPP Server
#
# chkconfig: - 99 10
# description: ejabberd XMPP server

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

set -o errexit
...

The numbers after chkconfig are boot-up and shutdown priorities, they may need tunning but those seem safe. I don't think chkconfig is distro-specific, I'll ask ejabberd developers to add this to the distribution package.

So after adding that to ejabberd.init, all that is left to do is:

su
cp ejabberd.init /etc/init.d/ejabberd
chmod +x /etc/init.d/ejabberd
/usr/sbin/groupadd -r ejabberd
/usr/sbin/useradd -g ejabberd -p ejabberd -r ejabberd
/sbin/chkconfig --add ejabberd
/sbin/chkconfig ejabberd on

Boot sequences depend on distro.

vesperto — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:34:18 +0000

Ivan Martinez wrote:

I learned that in order to make Linux start ejabberd during boot I need to have a script in a /etc/rc?.d folder, but where do I get the script from?. Is it the same ejabberd.init I copied in /etc/init.d?.

Depends on the Linux. That's true with Debian, the script goes in /etc/init.d/ and you place links in the /etc/rc? folders. Check the CentOS documentation, it's most likely a bit different since it's RH-based.

Accordingly to this

Ivan Martinez — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:36:01 +0000

Accordingly to this document:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel5-update-rcd-command/

the command for RedHat and CentOs is:

chkconfig --add ejabberd

but when I run it it says:

service ejabberd does not support chkconfig

Thank you,
Ivan Martinez

I know very little about this

mfoss — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:13:57 +0000

I know very little about this topic. Maybe you also have to run something like this:
update-rc.d ejabberd defaults 65