I am new to SecureShell but I'm learning...I need to know how to execute a script on a remote machine from a local machine where the script lives...For example, my script is called "vg_report.sh" and it lives on server "local"...I want to run the "vg_report.sh" script on machine "remote"... From the documentation that I can find it appears that all I'd have to do is from the "local" machine type: ssh remote vg_report.sh but when I turn on verbose logging I can see that it successfully makes the connection to "remote", but it can't find "vg_report.sh" so that tells me that it's looking for the file on the remote machine... Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!! Bill Hubbard

The file must also reside on the remote machine. you can use 'scp' to copy the file to the remote server and then 'ssh' to execute it. -jim

Ich haven't try it, but i think it should work ;-) cat vg_report.sh | ssh "remote /bin/sh -"

Thanks for the replies...Your suggestion worked great Jaha...Now I have another question: When I scp or ssh to a remote server, is there anyway to suppress the .profile information?? I just want to ssh to a remote machine and only see the unix prompt at the remote location and nothing else... Thanks!! Bill Hubbard