diff --git a/src/server/distrend.c b/src/server/distrend.c
--- a/src/server/distrend.c
+++ b/src/server/distrend.c
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
  */
 
 #include <stdio.h>
+#include "execio.h"
+#include "options.h"
+
 #define max 100
  // maximum number of stored jobs in memory, per job type (lux/blend). Eventually we can dump this data to disk, or atleast the remainder not in memory...
 int jobnum = 0;
@@ -94,7 +97,30 @@ void queue(int type, char *name, char *s
 jobnum++;
 }
 
-
+// Mostly kinda copied from old code, but I understand it a tad better now :)
+char buf[10];
+struct execio *testrem;
+char *execargv[] =
+  {
+"ssh",
+"ethanzonca@protofusion.org",
+"sh",
+"-c",
+"\"echo hello from ${HOSTNAME}\"",
+(char *)NULL
+ };
+size_t readlen;
+fprintf(stderr, "execio_open:", execio_open(&testrem, "ssh", execargv));
+buf[9] = '\0'; // null-terminating the array...
+while(!execio_read(testrem, buf, 9, &readlen)) // What's with the readlen stuff?
+  {
+    if(readlen > 9) {
+      fprintf(stderr, "Something is terribly wrong!\n");
+    }
+   buf[readlen] = '\0'; // Null-terminating the end of it again based on how large the data is?
+   fprintf(stderr, "read \"&s\"\n", buf);
+  }
+execio_close(testrem);
 
 ///////////////////////// SLAVE ///////////////////////////////