{Not enough info...} What version of SGE? Did you build from source or download it? Did you download all the various SGE packages including -common, -doc and the darwin architecture specific tarballs? When you run the following command, what do you see: $SGE_ROOT/utilbin/darwin/gethostname On the apple side, what OS are you using and do you have the Developer Tools installed? -Chris Philip MacMenamin wrote: > Installation of Sun Grid Engine on an OSX machines is failing, with: > > [G5:/gridware/sge] apple% ./install_qmaster > gethostbyname() failed: Invalid argument > can't get hostname of this machine. Installation failed. > > Whats the story? > > (This is probably a very silly question... so, i'll apologise in advance...) -- Chris Dagdigian, <dag@sonsorol.org> BioTeam - Independent life science IT & informatics consulting Office: 617-666-6454, Mobile: 617-877-5498, Fax: 425-699-0193 PGP KeyID: 83D4310E iChat/AIM: bioteamdag Web: http://bioteam.net