Elixir: Set cookie and hostname for release created using mix escript.build

When running iex interactively, one can use iex --cookie <cookie> --name <hostname> How do I set the same values for cookie and name when running an executable created using mix escript.build? I figured out that I need to create a vm.args file with the following contents ## Name of the node -name name@host ## Cookie for distributed erlang -setcookie cookie So I created a vm.args file in the same d