[erlang-questions] suggestions on how to start an erlang application from os shell script

[Michael McDaniel]

 Sorry for the noise - not at all what you described as wanting
 so never mind ...


On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:13:32AM -0700, Michael McDaniel wrote:
> 
> here's my directory structure ...
> 
>   myapp/
>      Makefile  /doc   /ebin   /include   /priv    /src
>                                           /conf     start_myapp.rel
> 
> 
> here could be the contents of start_myapp.rel in the src
> directory
> 
> 
> {release, {"OTP  APN 181 01","R13B"}, {erts, "5.6"},
>  [  {kernel,"2.13.1"}
>   , {stdlib,"1.16.1"}
>   , {sasl,"2.1.6"}
>   , {mnesia,"4.4.9"}
>   , {os_mon,"2.2.1"}
>   , {ssl,"3.10.1"}
>   , {myapp, "1.1"}
>  ]
> }.
> 
> 
> Here is a snippet from my Makefile for myapp ...
> 
> erl  -pa ebin  -s systools make_script src/start_myapp  -s init stop
> 
> 
> after running systools:make_script/2, start_myapp.script and
> start_myapp.boot are in the ebin directory and then the startup
> line uses
> 
>    -boot ebin/start_myapp
> 
> (if started from myapp/  directory)
> 
> 
> More details in the documentation.
> 
>    
> ~M
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:29:02AM -0600, Mark Geib wrote:
> > I have created an erlang application using the OTP structure.
> > 
> > During development I have been doing
> > erl -boot start_sasl ... then
> > application:start(myapp).
> > 
> > Now I am ready to package and deploy the app. We use debian systems here 
> > so I need to build a debian package to deploy from. The problem is I 
> > have not found a good way to start the app from the command line, i.e. a 
> > os shell script. I have tried creating a boot script, but this seems to 
> > require hard coded versions of the required apps, like kernel, sasl, 
> > etc. However we have various versions of debian in production with 
> > slightly different version of erlang, etc. installed. So I don't know 
> > the target environment.
> > 
> > I could create a one line erlang program that does 
> > application:start(myapp), but this seems unnecessary.
> > 
> > So, what is the standard method for starting a application from the 
> > command line.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Mark.
> > 
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> > Cheyenne Software Engineering
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