Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wagner@erde.informatik.uni-freiburg.de (Alexandra Wagner)
Subject: Re: pvmd3.3 can't be started on the remote machine
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Germany
Date: 10 Jun 1994 13:48:34 GMT
Message-ID: <2t9qvi$jnd@sun2.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>

Hi everyone,

Jalel Chergui (chergui@idris.fr) wrote:



:      I am using PVM 3.3.0 since a couple of days. It works fine since my
:      virtual machine is composed of one node (RS6K). I wanted to configure
:      it with two nodes (2 RS6K) and got only one. Actually, the problem is that
:      the demon pvmd3 can't be started on the remote machine. I just then looked
:      into the PVM 3.3 manual to see if I had missed something. In fact, I didn't
:      checked yet if the variable PVM_ROOT is set on the remote machine. It was not.
:      The cause of the problem is that my login SHELL is the ksh and not csh and
:      with ksh, rsh command doesn't execute a configuration file like csh does
:      with a .cshrc file. So all the problem is there. Since I will never go back
:      to csh and love to use PVM with rsh, how could I make PVM sets PVM_ROOT on
:      remote machines automatically ?


Well, it doesn't work on my machine either but my login shell is csh.
I did a "setenv PVM_ROOT &HOME/pvm3" in my .cshrc and it won't run.

I also tried a hostfile specifying the dx option on the remote host
but that didn't work.

Any suggestions how to get around that problem.

Thanks in advance.
--

	Bye Alexandra

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Alexandra Wagner
Institut fuer Informatik
Universitaet Freiburg
Germany
e-mail: wagner@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
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