I tried following this, I want emacs daemon starts/kills automatically:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/emacsd, which I did this (as root).

   1. cp emacsd /etc/init.d/
   2. chmod 755 /etc/init.d/emacsd
   3. update-rc.d emacsd defaults

But I still get this error when I
$ emacsclient -c examples.desktop
emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
emacsclient: error executing alternate editor "emacs -Q"

Thank you for any help.



On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:38 PM, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

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> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 03:06:36PM -0800, n179911 wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I read this follow wiki entry trying to install emacs server on ubuntu:
> > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsClient#toc5
> >
> > I have download the following script and cp it to /etc/init.d/emacsd
> > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsdInitScript
> >
> > And I restart my ubuntu, and I run 'emacsclient'.
> > I still get:
> > $  emacsclient
> > emacsclient: file name or argument required
> > Try `emacsclient --help' for more information
>
> Well? Did you try ;-)
>
> Thing is that the client needs a cookie file to know "where" the server
> is (and to show the server that it's allowed to). So, provided this
> server is running, it has put this cookie file somewhere (typically in
> your home dir, in emacs.d/server/server). I don't know how Ubuntu
> customizes this in partticular.
>
> Regards
> - -- tomás
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