Command Reference For The PVM Console
After starting the PVM console by typing pvm at the unix prompt, you can
use the following commands.
- add hostname
- Add the computer specified by hostname to the virtual machine.
- alias
- Defines or lists command aliases. Works the same way as the unix command
with the same name.
- conf
- Returns the present configuration of the virtual machine including
hostname, task ID of the PVM daemon, type of architecture and relative speed
rating.
- delete hostname
- Removes the computer specified by hostname from the virtual machine.
Parallel task still running on this machine will be stopped.
- echo arg
- Returns arg
- halt
- Kills all PVM processes including the console and shuts down PVM. All
daemons exit. This is the proper way to exit PVM after you are done.
- help arg
- Returns list of available commands if arg omitted. If arg is
one of the console commands it returns a short description of the command.
- id
- Prints the console task ID
- jobs
- Lists jobs running on the virtual machine.
- kill tid
- Kills the process specified by tid. kill -c tid will
also kill the processes started by the process tid.
- mstat hostname
- Shows the status of the computer hostname.
- ps
- Lists processes running on the virtual machine and takes the following
options.
- -a lists processes on all computers, default is the local computer only
- -hhost lists processes on the computer with name host
- -nhost lists processes on the computer with task ID host
- -l use long output format
- -x list all processes including console nulls
- pstat tid
- Shows status of task specified by tid.
- reset
- Kills all PVM processes except the console and the PVM daemons. Useful if
you interupted execution and suspect that some tasks are still running.
- setenv
- Displays or sets environment variables. Works the same way as the unix
command with the same name.
- sig
- Don't use if you are not really sure what this does.
- spawn arg
- Starts program arg on the and take the following options,
- -count count is the number of tasks to start
- -host start task on host
- -ARCH start task on hosts of type ARCH
- -? enable debugging
- -> redirect task output to console
- ->file redirect task output to file
- ->> file append task output to file
- -@ trace this job, display trace information on console
- -@file trace this job, write trace information to file
- trace
- Sets or displays the trace event mask
- unalias arg
- Removes an earlier defined alias arg
- version
- Returns the version of PVM being used.
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