Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Donald Krieger <don@neuronet.pitt.edu>
Subject: Re: Can PVM slave daemons be started on the slave machines manually?
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Date: 25 Jan 1996 14:08:30 GMT
Message-ID: <4e82su$dr@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

dincer@npac.syr.edu (K.Dincer) wrote:
>
>  This question is about starting up pvm daemons on several hosts. 
>  I do not want to give an "add host" command on the PVM console, but I 
>  would like to start PVM daemons on the peers manually (by actually 
>  logging into those hosts). I would like to  go to the peer machines 
>  and tell them to start a pvmd (in the slave mode), and collaborate with
>  the master pvmd that I have chosen.  Is it possible by definition/in practice? 
> 

You must log onto a host which is part of the virtual machine to
start a pvmd3 which is connected to it.  From the host on which
the pvmd3 is to be started, this can be done by using remsh, etc.
to connect to a host which is part of the virtual machine and
execute a script which starts the console with a list of commands
including:

		add remote_host
		quit

These are placed in PVM_ROOT/.pvmrc .  Good luck.

				Don Krieger

