Hi folks: I wanted to give a quick pointer to a simple cluster tool I had built a while ago (that I seem to use everywhere). It is yet-another-run-a-command across all the nodes, though it uses ssh, doesn't require daemons (other than SSH), doesn't send passwords or usernames, and so forth. You can pick it up at http://scalableinformatics.com/downloads/all-0.25.tar.gz . Usage is quite simple: [landman@squash.scalableinformatics.com:~/all-1.0] 69 >./all uptime username: password: ----- machine =crunch: . . . . crunch: out= 11:03am up 3 days, 18:03, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00 , error=, exit=0 ----- machine =squash: . . . . squash: out= 11:04am up 8 days, 27 min, 2 users, load average: 0.48, 0.43, 0.33 , error=, exit=0 ----- machine =stuff: . . . . stuff: out=blank, error=blank, exit=blank ------------------- failed machines=stuff (minimal) Documentation included. Joe -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615