From: Srinidhi <kgsnidhi@cdsp.neu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: Re: Closing Spawned Jobs
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 18:48:20 -0500
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The problem I have is that on some occasions,  jobs spawned off a
spawned job (second generation) do not die with a "reset"  command. I
haven't yet been able to identify the cause as yet.

So when it does happen, I need to, as Tim said,  get the id of each job and kill
them.

Thanks,
-Srinidhi

William T. Rankin wrote:

>
>
> hmm, howabout using the 'reset' command at the console prompt.  or,
> for those of us who love the command line:
>
>    echo reset | pvm
>
> -b
>
> --
> bill rankin ...................................... philosopher/coffee-drinker
> wrankin@ee.duke.edu ........................................ doctoral wannabe
> duke university dept. of electrical engr ......... scientific computing group