Hi folks: I put up some pages on using finishing scripts for fine tuning cluster installations. You can find them at http://scalableinformatics.com/finishing/ They will work with most any distribution, but are somewhat biased towards RPM based distributions. They will also work with most of the current popular cluster distributions with multiple system images (e.g. cluster compute nodes with full OS loads). Feel free to look them over, use them, etc. Comments/questions/critiques are encouraged. I am looking to build scriptlets that will automatically install bioinformatics packages which are not currently setup in RPM or similar installable formats. Joe -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Scalable Informatics LLC email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web: http://scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615