Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: d0js@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (GOBRECHT)
Subject: Re: pvmd3.3 can't be started on the remote machine
Organization: University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Date: 10 Jun 1994 17:17:13 GMT
Message-ID: <2ta76p$4ae@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca>

In article <2t9qvi$jnd@sun2.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> wagner@erde.informatik.uni-freiburg.de (Alexandra Wagner) writes:
>
>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.
>

There seems to be a problem on the RS6K with pvm3.3.0. I installed
it for SGI's and RS6K. I could add new machines directly with the
add command in the console on the SGI's but couldn't add any
RS6K's. The problem seems to come from the pvmd3 file in
$PVM_ROOT/lib/RS6K/pvmd3.

To add a machine, I found that pvmd in $PVM_ROOT/lib/ has to be
used (and not pvmd3 in $PVM_ROOT/lib/RS6K/pvmd3) by typing in the
pvm console : 
	add "host dx=$PVM_ROOT/lib/pvmd"   

or by using a hostfile containing : 
	host dx=$PVM_ROOT/lib/pvmd

and started with : 
	$PVM_ROOT/lib/RS6K/pvmd3 hostfile 

which should work like in version 3.2.6.

Cyril Gobrecht (gobrecht@stereo.cs.unb.ca)

