AIX

Try and run this to get the stdout to go to the log file:

Code:

Assuming:
scp_cmd="/usr/local/bin/scp -v $Target_file remoteservername:$Copy_directory"
Then:
$scp_cmd 2>&1 > /tmp/logfile.tmp 2>&1

After it runs, you should have something in the log file. Also, if you run the scp manually, it returns without any errors?

Yea man... I got the problem. Its like this...Iam opening an IP address and echoing the username and password for getting access to that machine. And from that machine only i am SCPing the file. This is because my username don't have the privilege to do SCP from my system. At this time when I echo the username and password if there is some problem in the network and the connection gets delayed ,then its just echoing username and password there itself.Its not waiting for password prompt.

We got an alternative method. I got another username which have the same privilege in my system. The thing we have to do is just to switch to that user and do the SCP. But the problem here is again the password prompt...i got the user password with us....but i am not able to echo it. There is other method like SUDO and EXPECT. But these things are not available in our system.....This is the scenario....Any hope????

Thanks in advance....

Vipin C

I've never been able to switch from one to another user successfully except for when switching from root. If you get it to work, I'd love to know how but I don't *think* it is possible.

Directly with only Unix script Its not possiblee,I guess... But there are some other options like sudo utility and EXPECT module in Perl.....Iam now checking with these.....But sudo seems unavailable in the system...and since its a secure server they won't allow us to install that too.....iam trying with the EXPECT module....till now, its didn't give good result....anyway i got hope......
will let you know once it succeeds..

Thanks,
Vipin C