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PVM

Section: PVM Version 3.4 (1PVM)
Updated: 30 August, 1993
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NAME

pvm - PVM version 3 console 

SYNOPSIS

pvm[-options][hostfile] 

DESCRIPTION

Pvmis a stand alone PVM task which allows the user to interactivelyquery and modify the virtual machine.The console can be started and stopped multiple times on any ofthe hosts in the virtual machine without affecting PVM or anyapplications that may be running.

When started pvm determines if PVM is already runningand if not automatically executes pvmd3 on this host,passing pvmd3 the command line options and host file.Thus PVM need not be running to start the console.Once started the console prints the prompt:
       pvm>

The following console commands are available:

    add  hostname(s)    - Add hosts to virtual machine    alias               - Define/list command aliases    conf                - List virtual machine configuration    delete  hostname(s) - Delete hosts from virtual machine    echo                - Echo arguments    export              - Add environment variables to spawn export list    halt                - Stop pvmds    help [command]      - Print helpful information about a command    id                  - Print console task id    jobs                - List running jobs    kill  task-tid      - Terminate tasks    mstat host-tid      - Show status of hosts    ps -a               - List all PVM tasks    pstat task-tid      - Show status of tasks    quit                - Exit console    reset               - Kill all tasks    setenv              - Display/set environment variables    sig  signum task    - Send signal to task    spawn [opt] a.out   - Spawn task         opts are: -(count)  number of tasks, default is 1                   -(host)   spawn on host, default is any                   -(ARCH)   spawn on hosts of ARCH                   -?        enable debugging                   ->        redirect task output to console                   -> file   redirect task output to file                   ->>file   redirect task output append to file    trace               - Set/display trace event mask    unexport - Remove environment variables from spawn export list    unalias - Undefine command alias    version - Show libpvm version

pvmreads $HOME/.pvmrc before reading commands from the tty,so it can be used to customize the console environment,for example:

    alias ? help    alias j jobs    setenv PVM_EXPORT DISPLAY    # print my id    echo new pvm shell    id

 

EXAMPLES

       pvm

Starts up pvmd3 on the local host or connects to running pvmd3.

        pvm hostfile

Starts up console and pvmd3, which inturn reads the host file andadds the listed computers to the virtual machine.

 

SEE ALSO

pvm_intro(1PVM), pvmd3(1PVM)

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