Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm From: Chris Abbey Subject: Re: Spawning script files in UNIX Organization: Minesota Colleges and Universities Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 19:24:35 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <35BE6BC3.DDCD55BA@vax2.winona.msus.edu> Kind of hard to tell without the specifics, but I've seen a couple different causes of that kind of problem... What kind of errors are you seeing in /tmp/pvml.uid? What's the return status on spawn? And have you checked that the script is executable, functional, and all that outside of PVM (I'm sure you have, but I spent almost an hour a few days ago on what ended up in a missing permission bit...) -Chris Darryl Dormuth wrote: > > I am trying to spawn a script file with PVMFSPAWN that starts a > sub-process that reconnects to the parent. At the moment, it seems that > the script file starts and then immediately dies before any commands are > executed. Does anyone know what the problem could be?