On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:08:23PM -0500, Carlos Ernesto Lopez Nataren wrote: > bpsh -a echo "134217728" > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax Try: bpsh -a "echo 134217728 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax" It matters where the > gets expanded.. and recall that bpsh's stdout gets hooked up to /dev/null on remote nodes, so with the "" in the wrong place absolutely nothing happens. g