Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: dwhite@trout.mrj.com (David White)
Subject: SunOS/Solaris Blues
Organization: MRJ, Inc./Oakton, Virginia, USA
Date: 23 Mar 1995 18:27:51 -0500
Message-ID: <3kt05n$3eq@trout.mrj.com>

Greetings, all!  The network I use has recently been given Sparc 20s (it had
2s and 10s).  We *have* to use these things, which only run Solaris 2.x.
I tested the PVM daemons on it (compiled and linked under SunOS 4.1.3), and
they ran.  Tried to link under Solaris... no dice.

OK, so I recompiled PVM for Solaris, & linked with my app, also compiled
under Solaris.  Everything seemed OK until I ran it.

The application does not see the PVM daemon on the 20, even if the application
started the daemon!  My one thought is that somehow the code which checks the
lock file and hooks up to the socket is OS dependent.  Is this true?  I didn't
think so, but the things sure doesn't see that daemon.  So, I must have
separate pvmd3 files for these two machines?  Yuk.  Please confirm, and
thanks for the sanity check (from a Solaris 2.x newbie).

Dave White


