Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: c0031010@ws.rz.tu-bs.de (J. Schuele)
Subject: Re: spawning shell scripts
Organization: Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany
Date: 8 Mar 1995 11:06:04 GMT
Message-ID: <3jk32s$b55@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>

In article <D52M5C.px@bath.ac.uk>, mapdjb@bath.ac.uk (D J Batey) writes:
|> This is something I've managed to avoid for a long time, but now it's
|> really beginning to bug me -- why can't I start up tasks from shell
|> scripts using pvm_spawn? Is there something I can do to make this work
|> now? If not, will I be able to in later versions? 
|> 

This should be possible in PVM Version 3.x.
simply:

echo " spawn program" > $HOME/.pvmrc
echo " quit" >> $HOME/.pvmrc
pvm
rm $HOME/.pvmrc

as script should do the job.

Josef Schuele

