Hi, A script has the line puts %x(echo hi) When run normally, hi is echoed. But when the line is executed as part of a drb server, an empty line is printed. I'm using Ubuntu 8.04, and ruby 1.8.7 (2008-09-27 revision 0) (drb is 2.0.4) Thank you, Ittay -- -- Ittay Dror <ittay.dror / gmail.com>