[erlang-questions] Name Issues

[Manuel A. Rubio "Bombadil"]

Hi Lee,

Loic said about you use your FQDN instead of hostname. Try to execute 
in the shell:

hostname -f

You can use it as:

-name myapp
-name myapp@$(hostname -f)

A try:

erl -name myapp
(myapp@REDACTED)>

erl -name myapp@$(hostname -f)
(myapp@REDACTED)>

If it doesn't works for you, review your /etc/hosts file, you should 
have an entry as:

127.0.0.1  barbol.bosqueviejo.net barbol

First, the FQDN and after that the single machine name.

Regards.
Manuel Rubio.