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@@ -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