How to run Erlang nodes?

Question

How to create new node? i try some like here how to run this erlang example and find the same in tutorial http://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/distributed.html when i write

% erl -name dilbert

my compiler behaves i forgot '.' at the end. Of course i try end, result the same. Any ideas?

Answer 1

The command erl -name dilbert is not meant to be typed into the Erlang shell; it's the command you run to start a distributed node instead of plain erl .

(If you really want to turn a running node into a distributed node, you can use net_kernel:start/1 , but I've never had a reason to do that except in tests.)

Answer 2

In Linux, you can type erl -name dilbert in the terminal . In Windows you run it in CMD .