Erlang init.d script in Ubuntu

November 25, 2008

Problem

You’ve created an init.d script for your Erlang application. When logged in the script works and starts the app, however it’s not working on boot.

Solution

  1. Make sure /usr/local/bin/ is recognized in the profile
  2. export HOME in you init.d script that points to the directory with your erlang cookie

VMWare Ubuntu copy can’t find network

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