Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wrankin@ee.duke.edu (William T. Rankin)
Subject: Re: can't start pvm -- me too!
Organization: Duke University EE Dept.; Durham, NC
Date: 29 Jul 1994 11:32:59 GMT
Message-ID: <31apdb$5bn@news.duke.edu>

In article <319efu$jtj@acmey.gatech.edu>, ccastco@prism.gatech.edu (Costas Malamas) writes:
|> In article <30jpco$1g3v@ns2.cc.lehigh.edu>,
|> Frederick W. Chapman <fc03@ns2.CC.Lehigh.EDU> wrote:
|>  >In article <CsvxoJ.9Ks@dnsserv.go.dlr.de>, ziegler@dv.op.dlr.de (Roland
|>  >A. Ziegler) writes:

|>  >>[t80000000] pvmd@sirius: ksh: /lib/pvmd:  not found.^J
|>  .....
|>  >I put the following definitions in my ".profile" file, and things seem to
|>  >work fine now:
|>  >
|>  >	export PVM_ROOT=/afs/cc.lehigh.edu/home/fc03/public/pvm3
|>  >	export PVM_DPATH=$PVM_ROOT/lib/pvmd
|>  >	export PVM_ARCH=RS6K

[.....]

|>   Well, I have the same exact problem.  I have narrowed it down to using 
|> ksh instead of csh. If I use ksh as my default shell, I get the same message 
|> as the original poster ("Can't start pvmd").  If I change shells to csh,
|> everything is fine. But, I _did_ try the solution posted -- both in .kshrc and
|> in .profile -- to no avail.  The strange thing is if I try a rsh with ksh as
|> the default shell, I actually get a prompt on the remote machine, regardless of
|> the rsh command! Anyway, any known fixes for this? I am running PVM 3.3.3 on
|> SGI stations running IRIX 4.x and 5.2 
|> Thanx in  advance...
|> 
|> costas malamas ____________________________________________________________

are you sure that the PVM_DPATH variable is set correctly?

first, kill off *all* PVM daemons on all machines.

second, type 'export' under ksh to see what environments variables are
  exported and what their values are.  as you probably know, under ksh
  (or just /bin/sh for that matter) just setting an environmental var.
  is not good enough.

third, try typing in:

               rsh <remote machine> ls -l $PVM_DPATH 

  to verify the location of pvmd on hte remote machine.

fourth, *now* start your pvmd locally and try to add hosts.

Good luck,

-bill


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