From Erlang Community

If you wanted a simple 3 node cluster you could do the following by hand.

1. On linux:

1. Install erlang somewhere, say /usr/local/otp_NNN
2. mkdir NodeStorage; mkdir NodeStorage/ANode; mkdir NodeStorage/BNode
3. export ERL_TOP=(erlang install dir, in bash) or setenv ( csh )
4. cd $ERL_TOP

1. create a shell script (ANodeStart.sh) that contains the following:

\# \#!/bin/bash \# Start Node A HOSTNAME=`hostname` HDNAME=`host ${HOSTNAME} | cut -d ' ' -f 4` erl -name ANode@${HDNAME} -setcookie ACookie -mnesia dir '"~/NodeStorage/NodeA"'

5) cp ANode.sh BNode.sh 6) sed -e 's/ANode/BNode/g' ANode.sh > BNode.sh 7)