<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE erlref SYSTEM "erlref.dtd"> <erlref> <header> <copyright> <year>1996</year><year>2013</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. </legalnotice> <title>erl_boot_server</title> <prepared></prepared> <docno></docno> <date></date> <rev></rev> </header> <module>erl_boot_server</module> <modulesummary>Boot Server for Other Erlang Machines</modulesummary> <description> <p>This server is used to assist diskless Erlang nodes which fetch all Erlang code from another machine.</p> <p>This server is used to fetch all code, including the start script, if an Erlang runtime system is started with the <c>-loader inet</c> command line flag. All hosts specified with the <c>-hosts Host</c> command line flag must have one instance of this server running.</p> <p>This server can be started with the <c>kernel</c> configuration parameter <c>start_boot_server</c>.</p> <p>The <c>erl_boot_server</c> can both read regular files as well as files in archives. See <seealso marker="code">code(3)</seealso> and <seealso marker="erts:erl_prim_loader">erl_prim_loader(3)</seealso>.</p> <warning><p>The support for loading of code from archive files is experimental. The sole purpose of releasing it before it is ready is to obtain early feedback. The file format, semantics, interfaces etc. may be changed in a future release.</p></warning> </description> <funcs> <func> <name name="start" arity="1"/> <fsummary>Start the boot server</fsummary> <desc> <p>Starts the boot server. <c><anno>Slaves</anno></c> is a list of IP addresses for hosts which are allowed to use this server as a boot server.</p> </desc> </func> <func> <name name="start_link" arity="1"/> <fsummary>Start the boot server and links the caller</fsummary> <desc> <p>Starts the boot server and links to the caller. This function is used to start the server if it is included in a supervision tree.</p> </desc> </func> <func> <name name="add_slave" arity="1"/> <fsummary>Add a slave to the list of allowed slaves</fsummary> <desc> <p>Adds a <c><anno>Slave</anno></c> node to the list of allowed slave hosts.</p> </desc> </func> <func> <name name="delete_slave" arity="1"/> <fsummary>Delete a slave from the list of allowed slaves</fsummary> <desc> <p>Deletes a <c><anno>Slave</anno></c> node from the list of allowed slave hosts.</p> </desc> </func> <func> <name name="which_slaves" arity="0"/> <fsummary>Return the current list of allowed slave hosts</fsummary> <desc> <p>Returns the current list of allowed slave hosts.</p> </desc> </func> </funcs> <section> <title>SEE ALSO</title> <p><seealso marker="erts:init">init(3)</seealso>, <seealso marker="erts:erl_prim_loader">erl_prim_loader(3)</seealso></p> </section> </erlref>