Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: prachya@seas.gwu.edu (Prachya Chalermwat)
Subject: Re: HELP: PVM3.3.4 under Linux
Organization: George Washington University
Date: 17 Nov 1994 07:30:54 GMT
Message-ID: <3af0re$r75@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu>

Van-Dat CUNG (vdc@prism.uvsq.fr) wrote:

: Hi, PVM users,

: I compiled PVM3.3.4. under Linux on my 486DX33 and 386SX33.
: PVM runs separately very well on both machines, and 
: i am completely amazing.

: Unfortunately, when i want to add the machine2 on the machine1 (or
: vice-versa),
: PVM console tells me it can't start pvmd on the machine2 (or machine1).
: The machines are linked via plip (parallel line internet protocole)
: provided with the Linux kernel. 
: I can run without any problem 
: rlogin, rsh, telnet, ftp and nfs on both machines.
: Environment variables and .rhosts file are correctly set.

: First, i try 

: /usr/ucb/rsh machine2 pvmd -s

: It gives me the expected answer. So, everything seems go right.

: But, when i try (with hostfile containing th names of the machines
: and paths to pvmd)
: pvmd hostfile
: PVM answers before giving me a hexadecimal number

: ioctl: Operation not permitted

: Thus, is there anybody who can tell me exactly what happens and give
: an hint for adding hosts. Thank you a lot.
: Van-Dat Cung.

Hello,

You might want to explicitly tell pvm where the 'pvmd' on the remote
machine is. You can do this by edit the hosts file as:

machine2 dx=<location of pvmd>

Mine is working fine with six hosts.


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