.TH ejabberdctl 1M "18 March 2008" "Version 2.0.5" "ejabberdctl"

.SH NAME
ejabberdctl \(em ejabberd Jabber/XMPP server control interface

.SH SYNOPSIS
.PP 
\fBejabberdctl\fR \fI[--node node] [vhost server] command [options]\fP

.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP 
\fBejabberd\fR is packaged as a SMF service on OpenSolaris, and should
be started and stopped using SMF. Its service name is:

    svc:/network/xmpp:ejabberd

\fBejabberdctl\fR can be used to debug \fBejabberd\fR server, and
perform many other administrative tasks.

User should have Ejabberd Management profile to manage \fBejabberd\fR
service and to run \fBejabberdctl\fR command, otherwise there would be
cookie file access permission issue.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \-\-node " node"
Specifies the erlang node on which command will be performed. Default
value is ejabberd@localhost. Node name has the following syntax:

    name\fI@\fPhost

host can either be a short hostname (usually it coincides with 
\fI\(gahostname\(ga\fP) or a FQDN (see \fBerl\fR(1) manual page
and look for options \fI-name\fP and \fI-sname\fP for details).

If the node name does not contain symbol \fI@\fP, then a short hostname
(that is, \fI\(gahostname\(ga\fP) is appended by \fBerlang\fR
runtime system automatically.

.TP
.BI vhost " server"
Specifies the virtual host \fIserver\fP for which command will be
executed. There are only few commands that needs \fIvhost\fP argument.

.SH COMMANDS
.TP
.BI start
Start an ejabberd node in background mode. This is the default method.

.TP
.BI live
Start an ejabberd node in live(interactive) mode. An erlang shell is
attached to the started server, showing log messages and allowing to
execute interactive commands.

.TP
.BI debug
Attach an interactive Erlang shell to a running ejabberd node. This allows
to execute commands interactively on a running ejabberd server. To detach
it, press Ctrl+G, q, <Return>.

.TP
.BI stop
Stop ejabberd server and shut down the node.

.TP
.BI restart
Restart ejabberd server.

.TP
.BI status
Get ejabberd server status.

.TP
.BI reopen-log
Request ejabberd server to reopen its log file.

.TP
.BI register " user server password"
Register a \fIuser\fP with \fIpassword\fP for a virtual \fIserver\fP.

.TP
.BI unregister " user server"
Unregister \fIuser\fP from virtual \fIserver\fP.

.TP
.BI backup " file"
Backup ejabberd user database to a \fIfile\fP.

.TP
.BI restore " file"
Restore ejabberd user database from backup \fIfile\fP.

.TP
.BI install-fallback " file"
Install a database fallback from \fIfile\fP.

.TP
.BI dump " file"
Dump ejabberd user database to a text \fIfile\fP.

.TP
.BI load " file"
Restore ejabberd user database from a text \fIfile\fP.

.TP
.BI import-file " file"
Import user data from jabberd 1.4 spool \fIfile\fP. For example, if
\fIfile\fP is \fI.../example.org/user.xml\fP then imported username
will be \fIuser\fP and it will be imported to virtual server
\fIexample.org\fP.

.TP
.BI import-dir " dir"
Import user data from jabberd 1.4 spool \fIdir\fP. Directory
name should be the name of virtual server to import users.

.TP
.BI delete-expired-messages
Delete expired offline messages from database.

.TP
.BI delete-old-messages n
Delete offline messages older than \fIn\fP days from database.

.TP
.BI mnesia [info]
Show informatoin of Mnesia system.

.TP
.BI incoming-s2s-number
Print number of incoming s2s connections on the node

.TP
.BI outgoing-s2s-number
Print number of outgoing s2s connections on the node

.TP
.BI user-resources " user server"
List all connected resources of user \fIuser@server\fP.

.TP
.BI connected-users-number
Report number of established users' sessions.

.TP
.BI connected-users
List all established users' sessions.

.PP
The following commands are vhost specific:

.TP
.BI registered-users
List all registered users for specified virtual \fIserver\fP.

.SH OPTION FILES
.PP 

.TP
.BI --config file
Config file for ejabberd. Default is /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg.

.TP
.BI --ctl-config file
Config file for ejabberdctl. Default is /etc/ejabberd/ejabberdctl.cfg.

.TP
.BI --logs dir
Directory for log files. Default is /var/ejabberd/log.

.TP
.BI --spool dir
Database spool dir. Default is /var/ejabberd/db/ejabberd.

.SH SEE ALSO 
.PP 
\fBerl\fR(1), \fBmnesia\fR(3).

.PP 
Ejabberd documentation is available at
\fIhttp://www.process-one.net/en/projects/ejabberd/\fP. 
 
.SH AUTHORS
.PP 
This manual page was adapted by Sergei Golovan <[email protected]> for 
the \fBDebian\fP system (but may be used by others) from the
\fBejabberd\fP documentation written by Alexey Shchepin <[email protected]>.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any  
later version published by the Free Software Foundation. 

The complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found 
at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html.

The manual page was modified for ejabberd-2.0.5 on OpenSolaris.