ejabberd_ctl.beam not found - Solved

Hi,

I installed ejabberd ejabberd-16.01-linux-x86_64-installer.run but it is giving following error:

root@deepak:/opt/ejabberd-16.01/bin# ./ejabberdctl available_modules

=ERROR REPORT==== 5-Mar-2016::14:57:32 ===
File operation error: eacces. Target: /opt/ejabberd-16.01/lib/xmerl-1.3.7/ebin/ejabberd_ctl.beam. Function: get_file. Process: code_server.
Error: command "available_modules" not known.
root@deepak:/opt/ejabberd-16.01/bin# ./ejabberdctl modules_available

=ERROR REPORT==== 5-Mar-2016::14:58:04 ===
File operation error: eacces. Target: /opt/ejabberd-16.01/lib/xmerl-1.3.7/ebin/ejabberd_ctl.beam. Function: get_file. Process: code_server.
root@deepak:/opt/ejabberd-16.01/bin# ejabberdctl modules_update_specs
bash: /usr/sbin/ejabberdctl: No such file or directory
root@deepak:/opt/ejabberd-16.01/bin# ./ejabberdctl modules_update_specs

=ERROR REPORT==== 5-Mar-2016::15:02:49 ===
File operation error: eacces. Target: /opt/ejabberd-16.01/lib/xmerl-1.3.7/ebin/ejabberd_ctl.beam. Function: get_file. Process: code_server.

How to solve this issue?

Thanks

March 5, 2016 at 3:47 AM

Hi,

If you run the following command:

ps aux

You will find the user of the ejabberd process is ejabberd.

ejabberd 11411  0.0  0.0  11652  1584 ?        S    14:12   0:00 /opt/ejabberd-1
ejabberd 11733  0.6  1.9 960396 59412 ?        Sl   14:12   0:24 /opt/ejabberd-1
ejabberd 12558  0.0  0.0  11616   980 ?        Ss   15:02   0:00 inet_gethost 4
ejabberd 12559  0.0  0.0  20004  1980 ?        S    15:02   0:00 inet_gethost 4

To solve the issue you have to change the permission of files to user ejabberd with followign command:

cd /opt/ejabberd-16.01
chown ejabberd:root -R .

We are doing this because the ejabberd run by ejabberd user but the files are root.

Thanks