Erlang nodes can't see each other

Question

I am new to Erlang and trying to set two nodes on my laptop.

In one terminal I type:

eli@elimayost: ~/erlang_apps> erl -sname foo -setcookie secre         


        

Answer 1

Did You check the syslog for errors?

Is apparmor active? Maybe turn it off and try again. One day I had very strange effects with apparmor running... but it is just a guess.