Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> writes: 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. What version of VMS and how do you get back the NCP$_NETIO error? If you get an actual text string back, you might try: "PIPE NCP TELL.... ; SHOW SYMBOL $STATUS" I don't see why you can't just issue the NCL TELL from the command line just once to get the failure results. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.