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PVM Directory

The directory $HOME/pvm3/bin/$PVM_ARCH is where PVM looks for executable files for spawned processes by default. If you do not use the ``ep='' option in the PVM hostfile, this directory must exist, and must contain symbolic links to some of the programs in the caml_utils/$PVM_ARCH directory. This directory structure must be present on all hosts, development and remote. A utility is provided to create the required directory structure if it does not exist. It must be run on each architecture/file-system combination. The executable for this utility is padeinituser , and it is located in the caml_utils/$PVM_ARCH directory. If you do not use the ``ep='' option, then run

padeinituser
to initialize the default directory $HOME/pvm3/bin/$PVM_ARCH . If you use the ``ep='' option in the PVM hostfile, then one of the directories specified by ep must contain symbolic links to some of the CAML Utilities. This can be accomplished by
padeinituser -ep dir
where dir is a directory specified by ``ep='' in the PVM hostfile.



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