SD> I was under the impression that if I ran the event from EVENTS00.BBS that 
 SD> it would shut down all the nodes (except node 1 and I 
 SD> can disable that in Binkley also via BT's events) so 
 SD> the nightly backups could run.  Not only are the nodes 
 SD> not being shut down, but the event is running off of 
 SD> node 2 (which is the first telnet node; all of my 
 SD> telnet nodes run from the WFC screen) and it's about 
 SD> six to seven hours off continuiously which is what's 
 SD> confusing me.

I don't think you can share Maximus event files in this way. 

If you tell 6 nodes to use the same event file, all 6 nodes will try to
execute the same thing at the same time, each in its own DOS window. Which
could be causing your timing problems.

Perhaps you can try creating a semaphore so that only one node (the first
node to execute the event) can run at any time. You can do this by tellign
the other batch files to return from the event immediately "if EXIST
%file%" etc.

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