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From: boyces@cc4.crl.aecl.ca
Subject: RE: New PVM user has problems, questions
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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 12:46:14 GMT
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In regards to your problem with not being able to add hosts to your machine,
the solution should be easy. Read up on the 'hostfile' section of the manual.
In it you should see that the default location of PVM/lib/ARCH or your
PVM/bin/ARCH doesn't correspond with your actual location. Therefore in your
hostfile you will have to specify their location using the 'dx' and 'ep'
specifiers.

ie: on the machine cu1 (an SGI machine) I had to explicitly use a hostfile
    as follows:
(hostfile contents)
cu1 dx=/d3g35/users/mcb/boyces/pvm3/lib/SGI/pvmd3 ep=/d3g35/users/mcb/boyces/pvm3/bin/SGI

and then load pvm with:
 pvmd3 hostfile &

Note, I have rlogin access to cu1 with my .rhosts file set for most of my
accounts, you may have to add the 'pw' command for password entry etc.

Hope this helps.

Shane Boyce
boyces@cu1.crl.aecl.ca

