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Old 05-06-2009
Thanks Kronos, that post helped me out bigtime.
Thanks Kronos, that post helped me out bigtime.

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Originally Posted by Kronos
Well, at the end I was able to make it work! Smilie))))

Once I could get the errors (access denied!) I realised that it was actually a problem with the environmental variables so after trying again with the older posts, I had to go through the export and printenv issues.

In my environment I found two variables related to the ssh agent (SSH_AUTH_SOCK and SSH_AGENT_PID) so I added them to the script:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=... (copied after the command printenv)
export SSH_AGENT_PID=... (idem)
/sftppath/scp root@remoteserver:/remotepath/remotefile /localpath/localfile
exit 0

And it worked!!! Smilie Not easy for me as a newbie, however... I post the solution here in case it could serve for anyone.

bye!!

PD: I guess I'll have problems with the agent id again, when I login next time, anyway...
 
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