Starting the System

Now we’re ready for prime time. Let’s launch our company. Off we go. We’ll see who wants to buy the first prime number!

Let’s start the system.

 
$ ​erl -boot start_sasl -config elog3
 
1>​ sellaprime_supervisor:start_in_shell_for_testing().
 
*** my_alarm_handler init:{xyz,{alarm_handler,[]}}
 
area_server starting
 
prime_server starting

Now make a valid query.

 
2>​ area_server:area({square,10}).
 
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