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Old 11-25-2008
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If $SESSIONLOG was empty or had nonsense inside, cat would tell something like "file not found".
You should also write stderr out to your log like:

Code:
sftp -b $SCRIPT $DESTUSERNAME@$DESTHOSTNAME > $SESSIONLOG 2>&1

If it is still empty, maybe put a -v for verboste to the sftp.