From: Kristof Beyls <Kristof.Beyls@rug.ac.be>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help with ADD command.
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 13:19:17 +0000
Organization: University of Ghent, Belgium
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Scott H Wirth wrote:

> I have just set up a small LAN with all i386 machines running RedHat Linux
> 5.2 and PVM installed via RedHat package.  I can run PVM console on each
> machine separately.  Conf result looks OK.  However, when I try to use the
> ADD command with a host name to link the machines I get an error under DTID
> it says Can't start pvmd.
>
> Any and all help will be greatly appreciated!
>
> Scott

Probably, there is already a pvmd running on the host you wish to add. There
must not be a running pvmd on the host you wish to add. If you kill the daemon
on the host to be added and try to add the host afterwards, it should work.

Kristof Beyls