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,