What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Mistype the path of a config file

e.g $ redis-server /etc/redis/edis.conf

or

2. Pass a non-existing parameter to redis-server

e.g. $ redis-server --help

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I would expect the error message to point to the configuration file that could not be opened, like this:

$ ./redis-server --help [4329] 19 Mar 00:53:35 # Fatal error, can't open config file '--help'

But instead only this error message is shown:

$ ./redis-server --help [4329] 19 Mar 00:53:35 # Fatal error, can't open config file

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

GNU/Linux (Ubuntu 9.10)

Just sent antirez a pull request on Github for this:

http://github.com/gnrfan/redis/blob/issue_193/

Merged, thanks

this issue was same as what i ran into. firstly,i cd /etc/init.d then entered in /etc/init.d/$,

i inputed redis-server stop or start or restart,it aways displayed "can't open a config file".anyway,i follow this one hint.added my config file path as

redis-server /etc/redis.conf,but it still doesn't work.

after some tries,i saw this one link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6910378/stop-redis-server

then i changed the way,input commands as below cd / /etc/init.d/redis-server stop

it looks like working.

but left a issue,the other terminal window still shows some error info .

saving data faild,permission denied etc.....

very confused ,i just have already changed the "dir" from "./" to "/home/xingon/Documents/data-region"

anybody help???

and the further help tips if you received a info as "cannot touch `/var/run/redis.pid': Permission denied",you just change the command such as /etc/init.d/redis-server restart(may cause the error) the right command sudo /etc/init.d/redis-server restart