Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: jmartin@tractor.cs.uiowa.edu (Jeffrey Martin)
Subject: Re: "Can't start pvmd"
Organization: The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Date: 17 Mar 1996 17:01:53 -0600
Message-ID: <k6g20mrfhni.fsf@tractor.cs.uiowa.edu>

Chet Vora <chet@brc.uconn.edu> wrote:

> I once had a similar problem and it turned out that the .cshrc file
> had a "date" command which the pvmd doesn't seem to like. I
> commented it out and everything worked fine. Apparently, the .cshrc
> file should not be having any shell commands which redirect the
> output to the screen . (eg "pwd" ) I don't know if this will solve
> your problem but you could perhaps give it a try.

I had a similar problem. In the man pages for csh, it says you can (in
your .cshrc):

if ( $?prompt ) then
   date
endif

So that it will only print the date if it's an interactive shell.

Things to watch out for in a .cshrc:
   1) things that give any output. Wrap them as above.
   2) stty. (Set Terminal information). There is no terminal. Wrap as
      above.

Jeff

