Thanks for the initial replies, but this is a guru-to-linux_learner question. I need specifics. I spent 5 hours spelunking the internet and reading man pages, before posting here. I tried everything I could think of and I came close once, but crashed and burned. You will note that these copying tools never have a place for password and usually no port reference. My conclusion is that all these tools/utilities require some setup of SSH - otherwise I get "connection refused" or maybe nothing at all. There is also the option to run a daemon, something I would like to avoid. I went into /etc/ssh/ssh_config and changed the port number that user-programs use - to 200 - for both machines. That does work, since the error message now has port 200 in it instead of 22. ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.110 port 200: Connection refused But ssh_config has a lot of other stuff in it (# indicates the default): # Host * # ForwardAgent no # ForwardX11 no # RhostsRSAAuthentication no # RSAAuthentication yes # PasswordAuthentication yes # HostbasedAuthentication no # BatchMode no # CheckHostIP yes # AddressFamily any # ConnectTimeout 0 # StrictHostKeyChecking ask # IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity # IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa # IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa Port 200 # Protocol 2,1 # Cipher 3des # Ciphers aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc # EscapeChar ~ # Tunnel no # TunnelDevice any:any # PermitLocalCommand no That's why I need to hear from somebody who has actually done this (or a variation on it) and actually gotten it to work. Thanks! 73 Ken From: app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org [mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org] On Behalf Of Ken Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 5:33 PM To: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org Subject: [App_rpt-users] copying files between asterisk boxes under program control Can some guru help me out with a command line instruction that will copy a file from one box to another, in a standard ACID installation? The boxes are behind a common router and have different port numbers for SSH (of course). If any config files changes are required, please show what is needed. Secondly If possible, is there a way to direct the output of this transfer to "stdin" so that it can go directly into another program? Thanks Ken