That’s typically how it works for a well-behaved Erlang application, yes. 
CouchDB does work this way; I’m not 100% certain about RabbitMQ but it probably 
does as well. Cheers,

Adam

> On Jul 15, 2021, at 5:11 AM, Andrea Brancatelli 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody, 
> 
> I have a general Erlang question but I think you could help me with
> that... 
> 
> I need to run CouchDB and RabbitMQ on the same set of (three) nodes, all
> clustered together. 
> 
> What happens with epmd? Erlang's documentation
> (https://erlang.org/doc/man/epmd.html) is pretty vague: "The daemon is
> started automatically by command erl(1) [1] if the node is to be
> distributed and no running instance is present."... 
> 
> So what happens? The first one between Couch and Rabbit who starts opens
> epmd and the second one just hooks to the already running copy?
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Andrea Brancatelli
> 
> 
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] https://erlang.org/doc/man/erl.html

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