Log the config file's expected location according to the environment varible if it cannot be found.

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/rabbitmq-server b/scripts/rabbitmq-server
index b430eec3fa..72811adc7b 100755
--- a/scripts/rabbitmq-server
+++ b/scripts/rabbitmq-server
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ case "$(uname -s)" in
            fi
 esac
 
+export RABBITMQ_CONFIG_FILE
+
 RABBITMQ_EBIN_ROOT="${RABBITMQ_HOME}/ebin"
 if ! ${ERL_DIR}erl -pa "$RABBITMQ_EBIN_ROOT" \
             -boot "${CLEAN_BOOT_FILE}" \
diff --git a/src/rabbit.erl b/src/rabbit.erl
index bd4f1dbc88..fda3f51699 100644
--- a/src/rabbit.erl
+++ b/src/rabbit.erl
@@ -776,11 +776,15 @@ home_dir() ->
     end.
 
 config_files() ->
+    Abs = fun (F) ->
+                  filename:absname(filename:rootname(F, ".config") ++ ".config")
+          end,
     case init:get_argument(config) of
-        {ok, Files} -> [filename:absname(
-                          filename:rootname(File, ".config") ++ ".config") ||
-                           [File] <- Files];
-        error       -> []
+        {ok, Files} -> [Abs(File) || [File] <- Files];
+        error       -> case os:getenv("RABBITMQ_CONFIG_FILE") of
+                           false -> [];
+                           File  -> [Abs(File) ++ " (not found)"]
+                       end
     end.
 
 %% We don't want this in fhc since it references rabbit stuff. And we can't put