From: "Joe Lerch III" <jel188@psu.edu.NOSPAM>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: SuSE Linux and PVM
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 14:52:59 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing
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For a school project my team is attempting to cluster together 5 computers
using SuSE linux and PVM 3.x.  The configuration consists of a master (P160)
and four 486 "slaves" ( The slaves are either DX4-100's and one DX2-66 ). 
Each of the nodes has a basic SuSE install and PVM installed.  All of the
nodes can be reached by telnet [name].  So, the hosts files are all correct. 


However, when I load the PVM and issue the ' add node1' command the system
returns an error message stating it can not start on the nodes.  We have
tried starting the PVM as a user, and root.  Still there is no luck.  The
hosts.equiv files have all the nodes and users.  Also, we have a .pvmprofile
in each of the home directories of the users we have started PVM with.  This
file just has the basic PVM_PATH statement set to the current location of the
PVM software. We do have NFS setup on the master, however that was used
mainly for the installation purposes ( It was the only computer with a cdrom
).  Is this some kind of security issue?  Is possibly a path issue?  For now,
security is not a factor to us.  The computers are only hooked up to each
other. 

Thank you for your time,
	Joe