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Guest
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:43 am Reply with quote
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Hi,

I would like to offer a few suggestions to make the server startup scripts
a bit easier to use.

- I already had erlang installed separately and really do not like to copy
stuff into another installation's directory; I initially ended up with a
couple of erl_dumps until I understood that the app search path was not
correct. Those dumps are very interesting to read for this VM geek but not
what I was after Smile
Starting everything in the ebin dir worked immediately. Maybe adding a
line like:

-pa %RABBITMQ_BASE%/ebin ^

to the erl start command would make this easier for others.

- good Java projects that have shell launchers make sure that logs,
databases etc. are not created all over the place:

set MNESIA_BASE=%RABBITMQ_BASE_UNIX%/db
set LOG_BASE=%RABBITMQ_BASE_UNIX%/log

May seem a bit overly pedantic, but it makes stuff a bit easier to debug
and more predictable.

thanks
Holger


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tonyg
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:33 am Reply with quote
User Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 199
Hi Holger,

Thanks for the suggestions - they all sound pretty good to me. Do you
have code in a state where you could send a patch or simply a snapshot
of what you have working? I'll file a bug report in our bugzilla so that
we don't forget the idea - we should aim to include your suggestions in
our next broker release.

Regards,
Tony


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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:56 am Reply with quote
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Holger,

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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 3:38 pm Reply with quote
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Matthias Radestock wrote:
> Holger,
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:16 pm Reply with quote
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:35 pm Reply with quote
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Matthias Radestock wrote:
> Right. Ideally it would "just work" though, without having to change any
> settings. Unfortunately locating the Erlang/OTP home from a batch script
> on Windows is fairly difficult.

Maybe this will help:
http://www.pankaj-k.net/archives/2004/11/equivalent_of_w.html

C:\home\holger>which.cmd python.exe
Found in PATH: C:\Developer\Python\python.exe

Of course then someone will have a completely unrelated binary named
"erl.exe" in their path.. If no erl.exe is found and no ERLANG_HOME is set
the script can still error out.

happy .bat hacking Smile

Holger


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