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Installing on Debian / Ubuntu

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Packaged as .deb for Debian-based Linux rabbitmq-server_2.8.7-1_all.deb(Signature)

rabbitmq-server is included in Debian since 6.0 (squeeze) and in Ubuntu since 9.04. However, the versions included are often quite old. You will probably get better results installing the .deb from our website. Check the Debian package and Ubuntu package details for which version of the server is available for which versions of the distribution.

You can either download it with the link above and install with dpkg, or use our APT repository (see below).

All dependencies should be met automatically.

Run RabbitMQ Server

Customise RabbitMQ Environment Variables

The server should start using defaults. You can customise the RabbitMQ environment. Also see how to configure components.

Start the Server

The server is started as a daemon by default when the RabbitMQ server package is installed.

As an administrator, start and stop the server as usual for Debian using invoke-rc.d rabbitmq-server stop/start/etc.

Note: The server is set up to run as system user rabbitmq. If you change the location of the Mnesia database or the logs, you must ensure the files are owned by this user (and also update the environment variables).

Our APT repository

To use our APT repository:

  1. Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list: 
    deb http://www.rabbitmq.com/debian/ testing main
    (Please note that the word testing in this line refers to the state of our release of RabbitMQ, not any particular Debian distribution. You can use it with Debian stable, testing or unstable, as well as with Ubuntu. We describe the release as "testing" to emphasise that we release somewhat frequently.)
  2. (optional) To avoid warnings about unsigned packages, add our public key to your trusted key list using apt-key(8): 
    wget http://www.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-signing-key-public.asc
sudo apt-key add rabbitmq-signing-key-public.asc
  3. Run apt-get update.
  4. Install packages as usual; for instance, 
    sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server

Controlling system limits

To adjust system limits (in particular the number of open file handles), edit the file /etc/default/rabbitmq-server to invoke ulimit when the service is started, for example: 

  ulimit -n 1024

will set the maximum number of file open handles for the service process to 1024 (the default).

Managing the Broker

To stop the server or check its status, etc., you can use rabbitmqctl (as an administrator). It should be available on the path. All rabbitmqctl commands will report the node absence if no broker is running.

  • Use rabbitmqctl stop to stop the server.
  • Use rabbitmqctl status to check whether it is running.

More info on rabbitmqctl.

Logging

Output from the server is sent to a RABBITMQ_NODENAME.log file in the RABBITMQ_LOG_BASE directory. Additional log data is written to RABBITMQ_NODENAME-sasl.log.

The broker always appends to the log files, so a complete log history is retained.

You can use the logrotate program to do all necessary rotation and compression, and you can change it. By default, this script runs weekly on files located in default /var/log/rabbitmq directory. See /etc/logrotate.d/rabbitmq-server to configure logrotate.

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