[erlang-bugs] epmd floods my errors.log

[Michael Santos]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 02:19:02PM +0400, Sergey Samokhin wrote:

> Every time I do "erl -sname foo" or just "epmd -daemon" I see this
> message written to errors.log:

> 
> Aug  2 13:22:13 myhost epmd: epmd: epmd running - daemon = 1
> 
> Usually my errors.log is full of these messages, which aren't actually
> errors. It looks like loglevel for these messages is wrong.

> There was similar letter some month ago:
> http://www.erlang.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?4:sss:50616:201004:gpmnkdkhkkmnlcghliek#b

Is the pid of the epmd process changing? Do you have more than one
epmd running? Check ps and netstat for port 4369.

For example, I can reproduce this behaviour by running "epmd" in one
shell and trying to start a second epmd in another shell.