Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: dbatten@postoffice.ptd.com (Dean Batten)
Subject: "Executable not found" solved
Organization: ProLog - PenTeleData, Inc.
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 00:05:18 GMT
Message-ID: <dbatten-1607952005180001@cs1-11.all.ptd.net>

About a month ago, I posted a problem. I received several helpful replies,
but it turned out that the problem was specific to AFS (distributed Andrew
File System), which we run at Lehigh. For anyone interested:

The problem occurred on the pvm_spawn call, with an error code "executable
not found." The odd part about the problem, though, was that is only
occurred when a parent tried to spawn a child on a machine other than the
one on which the parent was running; if it spawned the child to the same
machine, the spawn completed.

After doing some reading on AFS, I finally knew enough to check that the
ACL's for the directories my executables allowed access. After giving rl
access to all directories from $HOME to $HOME/pvm3/bin/RS6K, the problem
was solved.

Thanks to all who replied. pvm>halt

Dean Batten
dbatten@postoffice.ptd.net
Allentown, PA, USA

