How Can an Erlang Virtual Machine be run as a Daemon?

I would like to run Erlang VM as a daemon on a UNIX server, in a non-int开发者_如何学Pythoneractive mode

The simplest thing is to give erl the -detached flag.

There are however many helpers out there for doing this, check out rebars release handling, erlrc and run_erl.

Also rebar can generate a node that can be started as a daemon (with start, stop, restart commands).