Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi From: Amit Margalit Subject: Re: Problem with mpich on DEC Alpha Organization: Digital Equipment Corp. Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:20:21 +0300 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <359883A5.EA7FDE50@earth.iso.dec.com> Hi! James Cownie wrote: > > It really sounds like the permissions for rsh are wrong. I'd use > the tstmachines script in the mpich distribution to check what gives, > and try using rsh itself using the same machine names as you have in > the machines.alpha file... So silly of me! Thanks! This really was the problem. I was running this as root, and root didn't have the right permissions to rsh even to the same machine. I ran this as a regular user, and all went fine. A great many thanks, as this is going to save a really big project. Amit. #include ------------------------------------------------------------- When was the last time you saw a room of people cheer a group of computer science theorists for their significant practical contribution to advancing human knowledge?