Hi everybody, I configured ssh2 on sun Sparc running solaris 7. The authentication is host based authentication. I want to copy passwd and shadow files from host1 to hots2 using scp. I wrote a bourne shell script (it's only 3 lines). When I use this script on command line..it works. But I put this a s cron job it's not working. When the script is as follows: #! /bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH /usr/local/bin/scp root@host2:/etc/passwd /tmp/passwd /usr/local/bin/scp rott@host2:/etc/shadow /tmp/shadow I have the following error: 'ssh2 -l root -x -a -o clearallforwardings yes.................... sftp' no such file or directory scp: warning: child proces (ssh2) exiting with error code 255 when the script is same as above except it is used with -S option i.e /usr/local/bin/scp -S /usr/local/bin/ssh2 root@host2:/etc/passwd /tmp/passwd Then the error is: exec 'ssh-signer2' (No such file or directory)FATAL executing ssh-signer2 failed. Please help me. Thanks a lot. sri.