Question

I’m trying to start Erlang slave node on cluster and I receive bash: erl: command not found message. Though I have alias for erl. Here is what I actually do:

[user@n001 ~]$ erl -rsh ssh -sname n001    
Eshell V5.7.5  (abort with ^G)
    (n001@n001)1> slave:start_link("user@n002", n002, "-rsh ssh").
    bash: erl: command not found
                                {error,timeout}
    (n001@n001)2>

Maybe, there is something wrong?
Thanks.

UPDATE:
I’ve added Erlang bin dir to my $PATH variable; I’ve set $ERLANG_ROOT_DIR variable; created symlink in ~/ to erl – but nothing have changed…
I have installed Erlang in ~/bin/erlang dir…

Answer 1

The trouble was in bash:
Actually erlang connects to node via ssh, invoking default sh in non-interactive mode.
But when bash is started in non-interactive mode, it doesn’t read .bashrc where my path variables and aliases are stored.
So I switched to zsh and all is ok now! 😉