Problem with node name

[Raimo Niskanen]

I think the problem is not in mnesia; it is just that '-' is not
a valid character in an atom, so the atom must be quoted with
single quotes: 'a-tom'.

A you see in the error printout:
> application_controller: syntax error before: e055: [
]
the node name atom has not been quoted, so it is interpreted as:
        [ '
' - 6881 'e055' ]
hence, invalid syntax.

You will have to convince your shell to pass the single quotes
into the erl program. Perhaps try:
        erl -sname mb1 -mnesia extra_db_nodes "['
']" \
            -s mnesia start
Are you shure the '[]' brackets are supposed to bee there too?



 (Joel Reymont) writes:

> On Jun 22, 2005, at 8:51 PM, Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi wrote:
> 
> > Putting the nodename within '' takes care of all the funny
> > characters in the nodename.
> 
> This is what I mean:
> 
>   erl -sname mb1 -mnesia extra_db_nodes \[
\] -s
> mnesia start
> Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.4.8 [source] [hipe]
> 
> Eshell V5.4.8  (abort with ^G)
> (
)1>
> =ERROR REPORT==== 22-Jun-2005::20:58:07 ===
> application_controller: syntax error before: e055: [
]
> (
)1>
> 
> erl -sname mb1 -mnesia extra_db_nodes \['
'\] -s
> mnesia start
> Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.4.8 [source] [hipe]
> 
> Eshell V5.4.8  (abort with ^G)
> (
)1>
> =ERROR REPORT==== 22-Jun-2005::20:59:19 ===
> application_controller: syntax error before: e055: [
]
> 
> (
)1> halt().
> 

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/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB