Just an FYI, the Ruby interface to spread is now a port for FreeBSD. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/net/ruby-spread/ and that the download/CVS repo has changed: Download: http://www.rubynet.org/modules/net/spread CVS: http://cvs.rubynet.org/index.cgi/modules/net/spread/ -sc -- Sean Chittenden