From: Colin Scott Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm Subject: Re: Beginners Guide??? Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 15:58:28 +0800 Organization: iiNet Technologies Message-Id: <35F63524.BABF02F0@iinet.com.au> References: <35F1AB8F.5736407B@nospam.cybertrails.com> <35F2093C.2970@pvmcube4.snu.ac.kr> <35F5290E.FEC9E21A@mitre.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit DeAnn Iwan wrote: > > > Thanks for replying. I, too, am trying to set up Linux and PVM > on 4 antique 486s and have reached the same point. (I can run PVM on > each machine and rlogin, but cannot get the pvmd started on added > machines.) Never having used unix before taking on this project, I am > having a lot of difficulties. Is this hostfile you are talking about > the "/etc/hosts.equiv" and/or ".rhosts". I'd just put the name of the > machines in these files (and have been able to use the r- commands > successfully). > > I have also been setting PVM_ARCH and PVM_ROOT by hand since I am > not sure what the ".cshrc" file described in the PVM manual is (a > resources configuration file for the c shell, I'm guessing). Is this > the same as the .profile for the Bourne shell? Some hints and/or > pointers to documentation on what these files are and how they are > formatted would be much appreciated. I found this problem went away when I played with my /etc/hosts file. Try: a) listing localhost *last* in the /etc/hosts file. b) Adding all hosts to the /etc/hosts file c) Adding all the hosts to /etc/hosts.equiv It works on my home network (2 machines, both Linux), and at Uni (approx 12 machines, one Linux) Colin Scott 4th Year computer Systems Engineering Student Curtin University of Technology