The pgenesis shell script is used to invoke parallel genesis. It performs many checks and may set up necessary files and links in your directories. In addition to the usual flags available to the genesis executable, it takes the following additional flags:
Attempt to browse the PGENESIS documentation using netscape, which needs to be on the PATH for this to work.
The specified file should contain a list of hosts to use to run the scripts (e.g., "axp0 axp1 axp2"). Names should be separated by blanks or newlines.
Run the workers and in some cases the master nodes in their own windows and in some cases under the control of a C code source level debugger. Valid modes are:
Don't halt the PVM daemon after running the pgenesis executable. This allows you to use the -skip flag (below) on subsequent runs.
Do the minimal processing to start the pgenesis executable. Skip all checks and assume the PVM daemon is already running.
Run a version of the pgenesis executable which does not have the X libraries loaded - this is smaller and starts up faster and does not require you to be running X windows.
Run in verbose mode
Show and describe these flags.