Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wjiang@apollo.hp.com (Weicheng Jiang)
Subject: Re: [Q] Cannot start PVM3.3.4 !
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 14:50:14 GMT
Message-ID: <Dv3t7r.Ip4@apollo.hp.com>

In article <31F74C7E.4B0C@tu-bs.de>,
Ralf Hildebrandt  <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de> wrote:
>Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
>> 
>> I tried to start pvmd on 9 machines (homogenous network, all HPPA,
>> HP-UX).
>> .rhosts exists; hostfile used to start ("pvmd hostfile &") :
>> 
>A closer inspection of the cluster revealed that NO INDIVIDUAL
>/tmp or /usr/tmp directories exist on the machines, only one
>central /tmp & /usr/tmp for 9 machines !

Adding -DSHAREDTMP to the ARCHCFLAGS in $PVM_ROOT/conf/HPPA.def and
recompiling PVM should solve your problem.

--
Weicheng Jiang, Ph.D.            Chelmsford System Software Lab.
PVM Specialist                   Network Computing Division
Tel: 508-436-4613                Hewlett-Packard Company

