Do you guys know if there is a way to update a file on a remote linux box without and NFS mount or anything like that? What I want to do is have a script running on server A that appends data to to a file on server A and appends data to server B, and server C. I was thinking that I could have the script do an rsync and pull the latest version of the remote file, append the data, then rsync and push the file back out with the update option. Sounds like a lot of hassel and I'm looking for a better way. I wish I cou do something something like this ... (ignore the syntax just trying to make an example) On local machine I would; cat newdata >> maindatafile or echo "This is the new data" >> maindatafile and something like this for the remote machine; cat newdata >> remote_machine:/file/location/maindatafile or echo "This is the new data" >>remote_machine:/file/location/maindatafile Any thoughts? Thanks Jim Streit