How do I run etop towards an erlang node with a fully qualified name?

Question

When I start etop on my machine I get the following error message:

=ERROR REPORT==== 7-Jul-2011::11:30:09 ===
** System NOT running to use fully qualified hostnames **
** Hostname selilsx074.lmera.ericsson.se is illegal **
Error Couldn't connect to node '[email protected]'

I'm thinking that the problem is that the etop process is starting with a short name (-sname) and therefore is unable to communicate with the process I want to monitor, which is started with a fully qualified long name (-name).

How do I start the etop process with a long name?

Answer 1

Well, since the start script for etop looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

NAME="etop"
erl -sname $NAME -hidden -s etop -s erlang halt -output text $@

I guess I'm out of luck using that. I have to write my own start script if I want to use a fully qualified name, something like this:

#!/bin/sh

NAME="etop"
erl -name $NAME -hidden -s etop -s erlang halt -output text $@