Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Jonathan King <nobody@nowhere.else>
Subject: re: Loss of UNIX domain socket?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co.
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 14:34:09 -0700
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-ID: <3266A651.282A@nowhere.else>

Jonathan King wrote:
> 
> I have a long running PVM process, and it appears as if I'm occasionally
> losing my UNIX domain socket in /usr/tmp.  For example, my current PVM
> session has been up since Sept 20, and looking at /tmp/pvmd.xxxx has the
> single line "/usr/tmp/aaaa03721" ... It is my assumption that this is
> the reference to the UNIX domain socket that PVM supposedly uses for
> intra-host communication.
> 

Problem solved.  It turned out that the admin actually cleared out the
/usr/tmp directory, which left any pvm process unable to connect.

Thanks,
Jon

-- 
#########################################################
# Jonathan B. King       kingjo at research.cs.orst.edu #
# M.S. Student in C.S.   jking at cv.hp.com             #
#                                                       # 
#  Replying to this address will not work.  Please use  #
#    one of the above email addresses to contact me.    #
#                                                       # 
#               My opinions are my own.                 #
#########################################################

