Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: pm@inf.rl.ac.uk (Philip Morgan (until Dec 94 Brian Henderson))
Subject: Re: add a host in pvm3.3.3?
Organization: RAL, Chilton, Didcot, England
Date: 17 Aug 1994 15:43:37 GMT
Message-ID: <32tb79$1esi@unixfe.rl.ac.uk>

In article 137@sparc10a.lnc.hk, lamytp@u6000b.lnc.hk (Lam Y T Phyllis) writes:
> I recently installed pvm3.3.3 onto two sun stations. Yet I couldn't add host to 
> either machine, it gave message such as:
> 
> 	pvm> conf      
> 	1 host, 1 data format
>                     HOST     DTID     ARCH   SPEED
>                 sparc10a    40000     SUN4    1000
> 	pvm> add cssparca.lnc.hk     
> 	0 successful
>                     HOST     DTID
>          	cssparca.lnc.hk Can't start pvmd
> 
> regards
> phyllis
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Lam Y.T. Phyllis			     Tel: (852) 572-2226 Ext. 240
> Department of Computer Studies		     Fax: (852) 575-5185
> Lingnan College, 15 Stubbs Road, Hong Kong   Internet: lamytp@u6000b.lnc.hk

The PVM release specifies that some shell programs (ksh, etc) may not correctly 
set up environment variables (eg: PVM_ROOT....).

You can overcome this by trying the following

	pvm> add cssparca.lnc.hk dx=/u/lamytp/pvm3/lib/ARCH/pvmd

	where ARCH must be your specific ARCH ie:SUN4,HP.....

	and the location after dx is your specific location of pvmd.

Hope this is of help.





