[erlang-questions] Running an erl program on a remote machine

[Carlo Bertoldi]

On 23/05/2011 16:12, phiroc@REDACTED wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to run an erlang program on a remote machine without using the erl console?
>
> For instance, let's say that I have written a program that runs a batch script and that I would like to run it on machine B at a set time. Can I create an entry in my machine's crontab which runs the following script:
>
> erl -name machineB -detached<the name of the erl script that runs the batch script>
>
Why would you want to do that?
Why not put that command directly in B's crontab?

  Carlo