On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:48 AM, ibwood wrote: > I'm having trouble deciphering why it is not > outputting "e" and continuing on to initialize and publish to the joyChatter > node. > printf("e"); Try adding a newline to your printf() calls, e.g. printf("e\n"); Otherwise, the terminal might buffer the output, preventing you from seeing it. brian.