Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: papadopo@cs.utk.edu (Philip Papadopoulos)
Subject: Re: PVM on standalone Linux Machine
Organization: CS Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Date: 28 Nov 1994 14:29:49 -0500
Message-ID: <3bdb3dINN1rs@duncan.cs.utk.edu>

In article <786034498.4@cs.york.ac.uk> njt-a@minster.york.ac.uk (Nigel J. Tracey (3Y0)) writes:
>I'm trying to use PVM (so that I can use glenda) on a stand alone PC
>running Linux. It all compiles okay but I get the following error
>when the pvm demon runs:-
>
>        master_config() Bedrock: can't gethostbyname
>
PVM needs to map your hostname to an ip address. Look at your /etc/hosts file
and put bedrock in as an alias for the loopback interface (127.0.0.1). If
you don't want to do that try pvm with 
    pvm -nlocalhost 
to force pvm to use the loopback. TCP/IP support must be compiled into your
kernel.

Phil

*Philip Papadopoulos
*ORNL
* phil@msr.epm.ornl.gov

