From: Srinidhi <srinidhi@ece.neu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: Re: says "Can't start pvmd" when trying to add a host
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 16:06:55 -0500
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This is not really a PVM issue, but I will try to chip in my 2 cents.

In my setup, the primary machine does not have a ".rhosts" file on it and I'm
pretty sure that's
not the source or the cure for the problem in your case.

If you are running it on Linux, look at /etc/hosts.equiv and /etc/hosts to make
sure they have the primary machine names in them (aliases may work,  I haven't
tried) and make sure that /etc/hosts.deny does not contain the name of the
machine you're trying to remote login to. If that seems allright, it probably
has something to with the rlogin daemon (rlogind) not coming up etc. See if you
can telnet to those machines consistently to make sure it's not a network
problem or try reinstalling "rsh... .rpm" and see if it helps.

I may be way off the solution, but these are pretty easy things to do. The
other thing to do would probably be to
post this message on "comp.os.linux.setup"

HTH,
-Srinidhi

BTW, check if you're running secure shell, in that case make sure it's running
on all the machines.


DeAnn Iwan wrote:

> Uhm, I'm having a similar problem.  I have an .rhosts file (and it is
> set up for the primary machine names, not alieases).  When I try to
> rlogin, the machine appears to hand indefinately (never returning
> anything).  If I check the secure file (in var/log), the remote machine
> thinks it has a login from the first host.  Once, when I was using
> alt-f2 to go to a second console on the first machine to look at log
> files and the like, returning to the first console put my at the login
> prompt to the remote machine.  (That is, I had a successful rlogin set
> up.)  BUT, it doesn't do this "automatically".  It just hangs at the
> beginning of line forever until I reboot (or, in one case, somehow
> managed to trigger the full remote login--perhaps by going to an
> alternate console with alt-f2 or perhaps coincident to it).  I've tried
> rsh and it never returns (even if I log into another console).
>
> Unfortunately, pvm does not work.
>
> Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
>
>