Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: "Thomas A. Zochler" <zochler@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: Problem using MPI on LINUX
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany	
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 16:29:59 +0100
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Hello

On 4 Jan 1997 Datek@spiderlink.it wrote:

> I've installed MPI (ch_p4 device) on my single LINUX machine (RedHat distrib. 4.0) 
> but when i try to run a example program (cpi) with np > 1,  i obtain  the message 
> "Permission denied". 
> I think that it's something related to the rsh configuration: in fact, when i try to 
> run a command (e.g. ls) using rsh (rsh localhost ls), the result is  always the same 
> message. Note that if i run rsh with no options, it try to log into the 
> "remote" host (correctly).
> Thanks in Advance
> 
I think you have to do two things:

1) Create an .rhosts file in the home directory of the user account
   with which you use mpi.
2) If this doesn't work, add "localhost" to your /etc/hosts.equiv file.

> 
> 

Ad astra.

Thomas A. Zochler
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