ejabberd does use invoke-rc.d. epmd is spawned when calling ejabberdctl which ejabberd does in postinst and prerm.
Killing epmd may be dangerous when there are other erlang programs running, see: http://www.ejabberd.im/epmd Cheers, Felix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org