From: wrankin@cerberus.ee.duke.edu (William T. Rankin)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: Re: hostfile option
Date: 14 Apr 1999 09:57:09 -0400
Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Message-Id: <7f26rl$hkc$1@cerberus.ee.duke.edu>
References: <37149481.A91AAD8B@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>
Xref: ukc comp.parallel.pvm:8253


In article <37149481.A91AAD8B@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>,
Avi Levy  <avi@bgumail.bgu.ac.il> wrote:
>I am running pvm on unix alpha machines and trying to run it with host
>file option.
>
>%pvm hostfile
>
>unfortunately, it does not work. When I type conf and the pvm console I
>see only the local machine. 

a) what does the hostfile look like?
b) can you add the same machines by hand on the console?
c) is there any outptu in hte /tmp/[pvmd,pvml] files?

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