SD> For some reason I was under the impression that EVENTS00.BBS was for
 SD> all nodes, but since that's not the case, I just need one node to
 SD> actually run the event but I need all of the nodes to shut down at
 SD> once.  Any idea how to do that?

 MT> You could have a primary node that exit with an errorlevel that
 MT> points to the real work. The rest exit with another errorlevel at
 MT> the same time that either quits completely (to be restarted by the
 MT> primary node at the end of the work routine) or goes into infinite
 MT> loop on a semaphore that is create by the primary at the start of
 MT> the work and deleted by the primary at the end of the work. 

that's what i do... you just stated it better than i ;)

)\/(ark