From: abel@bfr.co.il (Alexander L. Belikoff)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: Re: HELP!
Date: 28 Jun 1999 16:52:49 +0300
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r.grenyer@ic.ac.uk (Rich Grenyer) writes:

> Sorry to bother everyone with something so simple ....
> 
> We've just started a pilot project getting PVM to run across some linux
> boxes. We've got two (gasp) working at the moment, with PVM daemons
> spawned neatly and happily on both. Running the actual exe that we hope to
> use brings up a number of errors, which we can go through in due course
> ourselves, BUT:
> 
> Can we run PVM on just two machines? The console comes up as running 3
> processes, and aborts with a PVMNoFile error - is it looking for a third
> machine?

Try to sport the problem step by step:

1. halt PVM ('halt')
2. Make sure, PVM is not running on any machine (ps auxw | grep -i
   pvm)
3. Start PVM on the 'master' machine and cissue 'conf' to make sure
   PVM runs on a single host.
4. Add another host and run 'conf' again
...
   continue doing whatever you do, periodically running 'conf' and 'ps 
   -a' at the console

-- 
Alexander L. Belikoff
Bloomberg L.P. / BFM Financial Research Ltd.
abel@vallinor4.com, abel@bfr.co.il