Re: [O-MPI devel] rsh and fork pls components

2005-12-13 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Dec 13, 2005, at 4:48 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: On the orted check for the fork pls, you will find that there is a flag in the process info structure that indicates "I am a daemon". You may just need to check that flag - gets set very early and so should be available in time for this purpose.

Re: [O-MPI devel] rsh and fork pls components

2005-12-13 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Dec 13, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Ralph H. Castain wrote: No problem with me - seems straightforward and resolves some confusion. Cool. On the orted check for the fork pls, you will find that there is a flag in the process info structure that indicates "I am a daemon". You may just need to check

Re: [O-MPI devel] rsh and fork pls components

2005-12-13 Thread Ralph H. Castain
No problem with me - seems straightforward and resolves some confusion. On the orted check for the fork pls, you will find that there is a flag in the process info structure that indicates "I am a daemon". You may just need to check that flag - gets set very early and so should be available in

[O-MPI devel] rsh and fork pls components

2005-12-13 Thread Jeff Squyres
I'd like to suggest a change for the rsh and fork pls components based on some real-world feedback. The rsh pls, despite its name, defaults to using "ssh -x" instead of "rsh". For users who do not have ssh in their PATH (e.g., for clusters that are walled off from the rest of the net and