OK, I know that I've seen a tool that Sun puts out for their clustering environments, but I can't for the life of remember what it's called. ( I think its a package of the SMC, but there's a lot of them) The basic function is this - you have n xterms open to n different hosts, and one "controlling" xterm that will pass what your typing into it on to the others. if you only want to run a command on only one, then you select that xterm, and type away. (god I hope that makes sense). question, if anyone knows what I'm talking about, is there a similar project on the open source side? I think I could find more than one way for this kindof tool to come in handy, and any info you could toss up would be appreciated -- LINUX, because rebooting is for adding hardware! www.linuxsnob.com <-- a little linux humor, and a very little support.