Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: swishart@mail.usyd.edu.au (Stuart Wishart)
Subject: Problems with console 'add' command
Organization: Deja News Posting Service
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 19:21:44 -0600
Message-ID: <870998658.12281@dejanews.com>

G'day,

I'm having problems using the 'add' command in the PVM console.  The
computers I am using are all pentiums running Linux.   I've have two
machines which are identical in there setup, ie. my 'HOME' directory
and the location of the PVM_ROOT, and one other machine which has a
different 'HOME' address but the same relative location of PVM_ROOT
to HOME.

I can't get PVM to join the 'different' machine with the other two
machines with either executing the add command.  I have tried a number
of different variations of the 'dx=...' in the hostfile but all still
give 'Can't start pvmd' error.  I have checked  I can do a rsh to all
other machine.

I tried to find the correct 'dx' string to use by testing it with the
two machines which work together.  However, as soon as I specify a dx
command I get the 'Can't start pvmd' error when trying to add the
machines.

Here are the dx commands which I have tried,

host2 (this works without a dx string)
host2 dx=~/pvm3/lib/LINUX/pvmd3
host2 dx=$HOME/pvm3/lib/LINUX/pvmd3
host2 dx=/home/SWISH/pvm3/lib/LINUX/pvmd3

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

Stuart
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Stuart Wishart                        email : swish@aero.usyd.edu.au
Dept of Aeronautical Engineering
University of Sydney

"The great great tradgedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful
 hypothesis by an ugly fact"   - T.H.Huxley

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