Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: fischer@rudolph.cs.utk.edu (Markus Fischer)
Subject: Re: Problem with hostfile? pvmd ?
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Date: 28 Mar 1996 04:19:30 GMT
Message-ID: <4jd40iINN839@CS.UTK.EDU>

hi,

in pvm3.3.10/misc/xhoster

you get an xhoster to type in the passwords,
very nice

  
Markus.

just compile it, start it and then do the pvm
command to get the console and type sth like

add "ed dx= ;lj;lkjl;  lo=anotherone so=pw"

....

Derek Lipiec (lipiecd@mcmail.cis.McMaster.CA) wrote:
: Hello,

:  I'm having problems adding hosts with different login, using the
:  lo= and so=pw options in the hostfile. When I run pvm hostfile, the
:  pvm does not prompt for passwd, just sits there.
:  I tried invoking pvmd3 directly from the architecture subdirectory,
:  for example ../SUNMP/pvmd3 hostfile and is sort of works, it prompts
:  for a password but than it appears to hang, I don't get the pvm> prompt.
:  I'm able to run rsh -l on that remote host, so that't probably not the 
:  problem. Could it be the pvm script ?
:  Any help greatly appreciated.

:  Derek.

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-- Markus

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