epmd

epmd

Command

epmd

Command summary

Erlang Port Mapper Daemon

epmd [-d|-debug] [DbgExtra...] [-address Addresses] [-port No] [-daemon] [-relaxed_command_check]

Starts the port mapper daemon

epmd [-d|-debug] [-port No] [-names|-kill|-stop Name]

Communicates with a running port mapper daemon

Description

This daemon acts as a name server on all hosts involved in distributed Erlang computations. When an Erlang node starts, the node has a name and it obtains an address from the host OS kernel. The name and the address are sent to the epmd daemon running on the local host. In a TCP/IP environment, the address consists of the IP address and a port number. The name of the node is an atom on the form of Name@Node登录查看完整内容