Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: papadopo@cs.utk.edu (Philip Papadopoulos)
Subject: Re: Can't start PVMD
Organization: CS Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Date: 2 Mar 1995 14:34:50 -0500
Message-ID: <3j56kqINN3b8@duncan.cs.utk.edu>

In article <3j43nt$gni@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> M.Beare@uea.ac.uk writes:
>At UEA we are currently running PVM 3.3.4 on a cluster of DEC Alphas
>which is made available to a number of users and has been working fine
>for several months.  Now, one (and only one) user can no longer start 
>up additional pvmds from either the console or a master program.  The
>error message in their /tmp/pvml file is:
>
>	startack() host cpcw14 expected version
>
Most likely, his/her .cshrc startup script is printing something
out (like the current date, or time , etc.). This will confuse the
pvmd startup.  Make sure that the user can rsh to the remote machine.


Cheers,
Phil



