--- deps/rabbit/scripts/rabbitmqctl.orig	2017-05-22 09:52:24 UTC
+++ deps/rabbit/scripts/rabbitmqctl
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ fi
 # (e.g. forget_cluster_node --offline) require us to impersonate the
 # real node.
 RABBITMQ_USE_LONGNAME=${RABBITMQ_USE_LONGNAME} \
+HOME=/var/db/rabbitmq \
 exec ${ERL_DIR}erl \
     -pa "${RABBITMQ_HOME}/ebin" \
     -noinput +B \