I installed OpenFire on Red Hat Linux. Then I started it manually using openfire.sh.
I subsequently found out that it had been installed as a service and that I probably should have launched it using /etc/init.d/openfire … it worked and I was able to configure it and connect to the server.
However, then I rebooted the server to make sure the service restarted. When I connect with the admin console it tries to have me configure the server all over again … and then fails saying openfire.xml must be writeable.
It appears that the openfire server is running as daemon and not root so I suspect some files got created as root when I launched it directly as root … and now daemon can’'t access them. What I need to know is which files might have been affected besides openfire.xml … I notice quite a few files belong to root, but obviously the server only needs to read many of them. What should I do to fix this? Or is it safer to just uninstall the package and reinstall?
Thanks.
Bill Bailey