On 1/7/2013 3:21 PM, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote: Can't you issue it from the command line? Python, if you are issuing the command from os.system("TELL...") is probably just spawning off commands. The context will be lost if that's the case. I'm using is.popen(), so yeah, i think i'm out of luck in that case. I'll just have to add some logic to maybe re-try the node if I get this. -brian