[erlang-questions] erl -s and erlang program distribution

[Michael McDaniel]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:23:30AM -0200, Fernando Ipar wrote:
> Hello once again :)
> 
> Please let me know if I'm asking too many questions!
> 
> man erl says if I use the -s (or the -run) flag and pass it a module 
> name, it should load that module and look for a function
> start/0
> 
> I have a module called mysqlha, and amongst other functions, it exports 
> start/0
> 
> However, neither of these work:
> $ erl -s mysqlha
> $ erl -s mysqlha start
> $ erl -run mysqlha
> $ erl -eval 'mysqlha:start().'
> 
> In all cases, I get the usual erlang interpreter
> 
> I'm using erl R11B on Fedora Core 5 (package is erlang-0.1.fc5), on x86, 
> if any of that helps you guys..
> 
> If anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong, I'll be grateful :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Fernando.
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 does your start command explicitly create output you expect to see?
 if, for example, your last command in start were time(), then make
 your last command

 io:fwrite('~w', [time()])


 also, to exit out of the shell after it runs, do

$ erl -s mysqlha -s init stop


~M