Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: ccastco@prism.gatech.edu (Costas Malamas)
Subject: Re: can't start pvm -- me too!
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: 28 Jul 1994 19:20:30 -0400
Message-ID: <319efu$jtj@acmey.gatech.edu>

In article <30jpco$1g3v@ns2.cc.lehigh.edu>,
Frederick W. Chapman <fc03@ns2.CC.Lehigh.EDU> wrote:
 >In article <CsvxoJ.9Ks@dnsserv.go.dlr.de>, ziegler@dv.op.dlr.de (Roland
 >A. Ziegler) writes:
 >>
 >>the /tmp/pvml.4445 looks like this:
 >>[t80040000] ready  3.3.2   Wed Jul 13 16:47:07 1994
 >>>>>>>>>>>> a strange kind of message!
 >>[t80000000] pvmd@sirius: ksh: /lib/pvmd:  not found.^J
 >                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 >
 >It looks to me like your remote system (sirius) is having trouble locating
 >the PVM daemon script file.  I had some very similar problems; let me give
 >you some background and describe what ultimately worked for us.
 .....
 >I put the following definitions in my ".profile" file, and things seem to
 >work fine now:
 >
 >	export PVM_ROOT=/afs/cc.lehigh.edu/home/fc03/public/pvm3
 >	export PVM_DPATH=$PVM_ROOT/lib/pvmd
 >	export PVM_ARCH=RS6K
 >
 >You can make whatever modifications are necessary for your site.  Once
 >PVM_ROOT is set correctly for your site, it should not be necessary to
 >change the definition of PVM_DPATH.

  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 ____________________________________________________________
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 >I hope this helps,
 >
 >Fred Chapman
 >Lehigh University
 >
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costas malamas ____________________________________________________________
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