[erlang-questions] logging out of shell without shutting down VM

[Håkan Huss]

What you can do is to start an Erlang node which provides a remote
shell to an existing Erlang node. This shell can then be stopped
without affecting the original node. The easiest way of doing this is
by using the -remsh option of erl.

Example:

Start the erlang node which you want to have running:

> erl -sname server -setcookie testcookie -noshell
...
(server@REDACTED)1>


Elsewhere

> erl -sname shell -remsh server@REDACTED -setcookie testcookie
...
(server@REDACTED)1> ^G
User switch command
 --> q

And the server node should still be running.

For more advanced usage, you might want to look into run_erl and to_erl.

Regards,
/Håkan Huss

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 04:54, tyler gillies <tjgillies@REDACTED> wrote:
> I googled for awhile on this but all the examples i found to exit out
> of shell also shut down the VM
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