Hey Joshua,
Sorry to get back to you late, I was with family this weekend.
Anyhow, from how I understand it, the application must be started
internally in-order to get the IPC setup correctly. However, I'm not
terribly well versed in the internals of the IPC framework, so I can't be
100% sure
The rabbitmq-server is broken in various ways (see
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/47799). By default files are installed in
non-standard places, which the port is (unsuccessfully) trying to fix. On top
of the old version of the port doesn’t even compile with the current version of
erlang. By