PVM Commands

We do not start the pvm daemon on Gandalf machine automatically, it starts when the student runs the pvm command. In order to run pvm, they must add the following to their .login file:
setenv PVM_ROOT /usr/local/pvm3

set path=($path $PVM_ROOT/lib)
and then the command that they need is just pvm. That starts the daemon, and commands can also be executed (help will gove a list of available commands). They should kill the daemon with the halt command from the pvm prompt. Here is an example:

gandalf shollen> pvm
pvm> help
help
help Print helpful information about a command
Syntax: help [ command ]
Commands are:
 add Add hosts to virtual machine
 alias Define/list command aliases
 conf List virtual machine configuration
 delete Delete hosts from virtual machine
 echo Echo arguments
 export Add environment variables to spawn export list
 getopt Display PVM options for the console task
 halt Stop pvmds
 help Print helpful information about a command
 id Print console task id
 jobs Display list of running jobs
 kill Terminate tasks
 mstat Show status of hosts
 names List message mailbox names
 ps List tasks
 pstat Show status of tasks
 put Add entry to message mailbox
 quit Exit console
 reset Kill all tasks, delete leftover mboxes
 setenv Display or set environment variables
 setopt Set PVM options - for the console task *only*!
 sig Send signal to task
 spawn Spawn task
 trace Set/display trace event mask
 unalias Undefine command alias
 unexport Remove environment variables from spawn export list
 version Show libpvm version
pvm> halt
halt
Terminated
gandalf shollen>