some more doc. added some text to some error messages.

git-svn-id: https://distel.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@67 d5f8e727-742a-0410-b67d-dd739a6cc792

AUTHORS

@@ -4,5 +4,8 @@ Luke Gorrie <luke@bluetail.com>
 Vladimir Sekissov <svg@surnet.ru> (dilber)
 David Wallin <david.wallin@ul.ie> (distel-ie)
 Darius Bacon <darius@accesscom.com> (design and doc advice)
-Mats Cronqvist <etxmacr@cbe.ericsson.se> (debugger patches)
+Mats Cronqvist <masse@cronqvi.st> (debugger patches, otp_doc)
 Martin Bj�rklund <mbj@bluetail.com> (major debugger hacking)
+Bill Clementson  (this and that)
+Matthias Radestock (who-calls)
+Dimitris Dinodimos (emacs-23-unicode)

README

@@ -72,3 +72,15 @@ https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/distel-hackers
 
   and the issue tracker at google;
 http://code.google.com/p/distel
+
+FAQ
+1. Can't handle event closed in state  derl-recv-challenge-ack
+
+this is what you get if the erlang node and the distel node disagree
+one what cookie to use.
+
+Use (in erl)
+ erlang:get_cookie()
+and (in emacs)
+ M-x erl-get-cookie
+to check the cookies.

elisp/derl.el

@@ -179,6 +179,9 @@ Use the distribution protocol's EXIT2 message."
 (defun derl-recv-challenge-ack (event data)
   "Receive and check challenge ack. If it's OK then the handshake is
 complete and we become live."
+  (if (equal event 'closed) 
+      (message "Distel thinks the cookie is %s. Erlang seems to disagree." 
+	       (erl-cookie)))
   (check-event event 'data)
   (when (derl-have-msg)
     (goto-char (point-min))

elisp/erl.el

@@ -53,9 +53,11 @@
 (defun erl-determine-hostname ()
   "Figure out the short-names hostname."
   (let ((fqdn (system-name)))
-    (if (string-match "[^\\.]+" fqdn)
-	(match-string 0 fqdn)
-      (error "erl: Can't determine hostname."))))
+    (if (string-match "\\.local$" fqdn)
+	fqdn
+      (if (string-match "[^\\.]+" fqdn)
+	  (match-string 0 fqdn)
+	(error "erl: Can't determine hostname.")))))
 
 (when (null erl-node-name)
   (setq erl-node-name