[erlang-questions] escript and epmd

[Bengt Kleberg]

greetings,

coulkd you live with another level of indirection? if you have a shell 
(ex: /bin/sh) script that checks epmd (epmd -names or similar) and then 
start your escript?


bengt
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On 2007-09-19 18:42, Stefan Strigler wrote:
> Hi, next question :)
> 
> How can I make sure that epmd is running when using escript. I want to
> start a named node from within escript and ping some other node like
> this:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env escript
> 
> main(_) ->
>   net_kernel:start([foo, shortnames]),
>   erlang:set_cookie(some_random_cookie),
>   case net_adm:ping(some_other_node) of
>     pong -> ...
>     pang -> %% spawn some_other_node
>       ...
>   end.
> 
> But if epmd isn't running already I get:
> 
> =INFO REPORT==== 19-Sep-2007::18:50:36 ===
> Protocol: "inet_tcp": register error: {{badmatch,{error,econnrefused}},
>                                        [{inet_tcp_dist,listen,1},
>                                         {net_kernel,start_protos,4},
>                                         {net_kernel,start_protos,3},
>                                         {net_kernel,init_node,2},
>                                         {net_kernel,init,1},
>                                         {gen_server,init_it,6},
>                                         {proc_lib,init_p,5}]}
> escript: script failed with error reason function_clause
> 
> 
> 
> Any help appreciated, Steve
> 
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