From: "Phil O'Connor" <phil.oconnor@virtus.com>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: shared daemons?
Date: 19 Feb 1999 01:06:50 GMT
Organization: Interpath Communications, Inc.
Message-Id: <01be5ba4$20e51200$9b5448c7@phil-o-connor.virtus.com>
Xref: ukc comp.parallel.pvm:8037


Hi,

I've installed pvm on my account on a network of HP-UX machines. It seems
to be working fine for the most part, but the clustered nature of the
network is causing some problems with my pvmd.<uid> files.

There are several workstations per cluster.  One cluster, 'tools', has
several machines including hammer and wrench.  When I add hammer to my
virtual machine, it adds fine.  Then i go to add wrench and and it won't
add because it's /tmp/ directory is the same as hammer's tmp directory (and
all others in this cluster) and it sees i already have pvmd.uid there, and
claims duplicate host.  

I've found that just deleting the pvmd file manually at this point fixes
it, and i can then add wrench successfully, and all machines participate in
the distributed processing.  But is there a way around this?  I'm hoping to
use a host file of dozens of host names, but this is impossible if I need
to delete the pvmd everytime a machine from the same cluster is added.

Help.

Thanks in advance
Phil