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Clarification about system user of ejabberd.init

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@ -251,8 +251,9 @@ and for example it doesn't read the file ejabberdctl.cfg.
On a *nix system, if you want ejabberd to be started as daemon at boot time,
copy \term{ejabberd.init} from the 'bin' directory to something like \term{/etc/init.d/ejabberd}
(depending on your distribution).
Create a system user called \term{ejabberd};
it will be used by the script to start the server.
Create a system user called \term{ejabberd},
give it write access to the directories \term{database/} and \term{logs/}, and set that as home;
the script will start the server with that user.
Then you can call \term{/etc/inid.d/ejabberd start} as root to start the server.
If \term{ejabberd} doesn't start correctly in Windows,