On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 11:07:23PM -0600, Erik Huizing wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>  I've got 2 machines running NetBSd 1.4.2, and I'm trying to get pvm
> running on them. I've installed both pvm-3.4.2 and ssh-1.2.27. The problem
> I'm having is adding hosts. I've been through the help files, and they
> don't seem to help (executing rsh commands works fine)
> 
> pvm> add dilbert
> add dilbert
> 0 successful
>                     HOST     DTID
>                    bob  Can't start pvmd
> 
> Here's what's left in /tmp/pvml.x after trying to add a host:
> 
> [t80040000] 06/10 22:52:25 bob (192.168.1.16:65003) NETBSDI386 3.4.2
> [t80040000] 06/10 22:52:25 ready Sat Jun 10 22:52:25 2000
> [t80000000] 06/10 22:53:29 pl_startup() giving up on host dilbert
> aftaer 60 secs
> [t80040000] 06/10 22:53:29 startack() host dilbert expected version,
> got "PvmCantStart"
> 
> My .rhosts on both machines contains + +, I can execute rsh commands
> to/from each machine, and each machines has sshd1 running. 
> Also, PVM_ROOT and PVM_ARCH are properly set on both machines. 

You're mixing 2 things here: rsh and ssh.
I'm not sure whenever pvm uses rsh or ssh, but you should test with the one
it's using.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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