[erlang-questions] Starting Erlang as a Unix daemon

[Koushik Narayanan]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 11:26:58AM +1100, Sam Bobroff wrote:
> 
> Without these properties a system can't be (safely) used from package
> managers like RPM and it also looks bad to system administrators (who
> have to use "ps" and look at some log file just to see if it's started
> up).

Any thoughts on using erlrc for this purpose?

http://code.google.com/p/erlrc

It claims to solve this problem, though I am not very sure how it works.


Regards,

Koushik Narayanan