# Start and stop mosquitto server from node-red
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/start-and-stop-mosquitto-server-from-node-red/69402
**Category:** General
**Created:** [21 October 2022 20:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/start-and-stop-mosquitto-server-from-node-red/69402 "2022-10-21T20:19:59Z")
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### Author:  [@jim53](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jim53)
#### Post date: [21 October 2022 20:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/start-and-stop-mosquitto-server-from-node-red/69402/1 "2022-10-21T20:19:59Z")
Hello everybody,
I would like to start and stop mosquitto server from node-red and not from the windows command i Windows 10 OS.
I have used the "exec" node with the command "net start mosquitto" but error 5 occured because I think node-red doesn't start mosquitto with administrator permissons.
I there a way to start en stop Mosquitto server from node-red?
Thank you for your help.
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [21 October 2022 20:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/start-and-stop-mosquitto-server-from-node-red/69402/2 "2022-10-21T20:36:29Z")
Welcome to the forum @jim53
I don't know how to solve your problem, but I would be interested to know why you need to do that. It seems a strange thing to want to do.
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### Author:  [@jim53](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jim53)
#### Post date: [21 October 2022 22:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/start-and-stop-mosquitto-server-from-node-red/69402/3 "2022-10-21T22:06:31Z")
Hello Colin,
I want to do that because I don't want to manage the mosquittto server outside the node-red flow.
For me, it seems to be better to not have to start the mosquitto server before starting the node-red flow.
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [21 October 2022 22:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/start-and-stop-mosquitto-server-from-node-red/69402/4 "2022-10-21T22:30:00Z")
In that case you could just use an exec node to call it, rather than try to start it as a service.
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### Author:  [@jim53](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jim53)
#### Post date: [21 October 2022 22:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/start-and-stop-mosquitto-server-from-node-red/69402/5 "2022-10-21T22:42:51Z")
Dear dceejay,
I have tried already to use the exec node but I have the system error 5 after the flow launches the command
To start the Mosquitto server, I need to have administrator privileges but I d'ont know how to change my command "net start mosquitto" to specify to run it with administrator privileges.
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [21 October 2022 23:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/start-and-stop-mosquitto-server-from-node-red/69402/6 "2022-10-21T23:15:33Z")
Why use net start mosquitto. ? Can’t you just run mosquitto?
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [22 October 2022 06:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/start-and-stop-mosquitto-server-from-node-red/69402/7 "2022-10-22T06:26:55Z")
> [@jim53](#):
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> it seems to be better to not have to start the mosquitto server before starting the node-red flow.
What advantage do you see from doing that?
But if you do want to then Dave's suggestion should do it. Don't try and start the service, just exec `mosquitto`.
**[Edit]** You might need a command line parameter to tell it where to load its config from.
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### Author:  [@krambriw](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/krambriw)
#### Post date: [22 October 2022 16:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/start-and-stop-mosquitto-server-from-node-red/69402/8 "2022-10-22T16:19:06Z")
> [@jim53](#):
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> it seems to be better to not have to start the mosquitto server before starting the node-red flow
That is hard to believe. Mosquitto server is a separat application without any dependencies or need of node-red
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [21 December 2022 16:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/start-and-stop-mosquitto-server-from-node-red/69402/9 "2022-12-21T16:19:17Z")
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