diff --git a/src/server/slave.c b/src/server/slave.c
--- a/src/server/slave.c
+++ b/src/server/slave.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ options_init(argc,argv,&my_cfg, myopts, 
 int jobnum;          // The job number that we're currently working
 int framenum;        // @TODO: Remotio should fill this
 
-int gotframe;        // set this to 1 after data for a job is received from the server
+int gotframe = 0;        // set this to 1 after data for a job is received from the server
 int busy = 0;        // Client business 1=busy 0=idle
 
 char *urltoTar;      // Full URL to the server-side location of job#.tgz
@@ -145,7 +145,9 @@ if(gotframe ==1)
   {
     /* @TODO: Add remotio hooks */
     // jobnum = remoteio_read(jobnum); // Set jobnum from remoteio (we could use info from struct, but we need this info to download the xmlfile)
+    jobnum = 0;
     //framenum = remoteio_read(jobnum); // Set framenum from remoteio
+    framenum = 0;
 
     char *tarcmd;
     char *outdir;
@@ -213,7 +215,7 @@ if(gotframe ==1)
 
     // Consider placing the following in the exec_blender() function
     while(busy == 1){
-      tell_the_server(DISTREN_REQUEST_PROGRESS);
+      tell_the_server("DISTREN_REQUEST_PROGRESS");
         fprintf(stderr, "Rendering frame %d in job %d...",framenum,jobnum);
         sleep(5); // or not... this should be more event-driven, but should still give a heartbeat to the server
       }
@@ -226,7 +228,8 @@ if(gotframe ==1)
         char *outputurl;
         _distren_asprintf(&outputurl, "http://protofusion.org/distren/stor/job%d/",jobnum); // Aggregates the output url
         curlpost(pathtoOutput, urltoOutput); // uploads (HTML POST) the output at outputpath to the server at outputurl
-        tell_the_server(DISTREN_REQUEST_DONEFRAME); // Tells the server that it's finished rendering this frame
+        tell_the_server("DISTREN_REQUEST_DONEFRAME"
+            ); // Tells the server that it's finished rendering this frame
         busy=0;
         // Slave now becomes idle, doesn't need to tell the server anything, ssh handles this.
       }