Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: jacobs@netcom.com (Allan Jacobs)
Subject: Re: PVM problem or network problem?
Organization: Applied Parallel Research (Topanga)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 03:06:51 GMT
Message-ID: <jacobsCzG0nF.Los@netcom.com>

wang@cteq11.msu.edu (Xiaoning Wang) writes:

>Hi, we have several NeXT workstations here and they connected by network, but
>everyone only have one home directory on one machine, though we can log on any
>one of them. 
>I installed pvm version 3 in my ~/pvm3 directory on cteq11 machine, everything
>seems fine. but when I run pvm from cteq11 and try to add host, say cteq14, it
>says : cteq14 Can't start pvmd. Then I tried run pvm from cteq14 and then add
>host cteq11, it works fine.
>Does this have something to do with network or the way I installed pvm ?
>Thank you !

I got a similar error today when I switched from PVM3.2.x to PVM3.3.5.  There
is a bug somewhere in PVM3.3.5.  After some trial and error, I found
a workaround.  Simply moving the assignment of PVM_ROOT in my .cshrc
files to somewhere very near the top makes the problem go away.

This assumes that your .rhost files are set up correctly and your
environment is set up correctly.  There are, it seems, many ways to
run into this problem.

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