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| author | Magnus Henoch <[email protected]> | 2016-04-20 14:40:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Magnus Henoch <[email protected]> | 2016-05-25 17:36:50 +0100 |
| commit | 34f853950685e4e7ab38f30fc3f17a6beac13349 (patch) | |
| tree | 7861f106dc4f1daa6cd2ac5e57e17e0410353b1e /erts/doc | |
| parent | 42a0229c44875f927bc1fda138d24131874a1c3c (diff) | |
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Add -start_epmd command line option
Add a command line option that lets you disable automatic starting of
epmd when starting a distributed node.
This differs from the undocumented setting -no_epmd, in that it does
not affect the starting of an erl_epmd process within
erl_distribution: the newly started node will expect an epmd instance
to have been started previously.
Diffstat (limited to 'erts/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erl.xml | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml index 1bbde7f1e0..e63928ddb0 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml @@ -338,7 +338,8 @@ <seealso marker="kernel:net_kernel">net_kernel(3)</seealso>. It is also ensured that <c><![CDATA[epmd]]></c> runs on the current host before Erlang is started. See - <seealso marker="epmd">epmd(1)</seealso>.</p> + <seealso marker="epmd">epmd(1)</seealso> and the + <seealso marker="#start_epmd"><c>-start_epmd</c></seealso> option.</p> <p>The name of the node will be <c><![CDATA[Name@Host]]></c>, where <c><![CDATA[Host]]></c> is the fully qualified host name of the current host. For short names, use the <c><![CDATA[-sname]]></c> flag instead.</p> @@ -463,6 +464,21 @@ flag and those running with the <c><![CDATA[-name]]></c> flag, as node names must be unique in distributed Erlang systems.</p> </item> + <tag><marker id="start_epmd"/><c>-start_epmd true | false</c></tag> + <item> + + <p>Specifies whether Erlang should start + <seealso marker="epmd">epmd</seealso> on startup. By default + this is <c>true</c>, but if you prefer to start epmd + manually, set this to <c>false</c>.</p> + + <p>This only applies if Erlang is started as a distributed node, + i.e. if <c>-name</c> or <c>-sname</c> is specified. Otherwise, + epmd is not started even if <c>-start_epmd true</c> is given.</p> + + <p>Note that a distributed node will fail to start if epmd is + not running.</p> + </item> <tag><marker id="smp"/><c><![CDATA[-smp [enable|auto|disable]]]></c></tag> <item> <p><c>-smp enable</c> and <c>-smp</c> starts the Erlang runtime |