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Any attempt to answer your question would require considerably more information than you have so far provided.

For example. What OS(s) and filesystem(s) are running on the server and workstation?

How much and how often is <ioccasionally append?

Will the occasional be driven by a manual process (ie. someone running a program) or by a scheduled or deamon type long-running process?

What is (or what is the source of) the data you want to write?

I'm assuming that you are trying to do this from perl. If so, what have you tried already and what problems did you encounter?

Showing us your code is always a good way to get people interested in helping.

Nah! Your thinking of Simon Templar, originally played by Roger Moore and later by Ian Ogilvy
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Re: Re: creating and writing a file on server
by anox27 (Initiate) on Oct 31, 2002 at 20:49 UTC
    sorry for the brief question. i tried Aristotle (first reply) solution and i got it to work. the OS is am working is freeBSD.

    ssh remotehost cat >> filename <localfile

    later i append stuff into filename at various times. now the problem is permission as every attempt to write to this file requires a password. and the script needs to be automated.
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      See: man ssh
      You will find (mostly) everything about ssh authentication.

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      Aristotle++ His internet prescience device must be performing optimally tonight.

      Nah! Your thinking of Simon Templar, originally played by Roger Moore and later by Ian Ogilvy
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      You will want to generate a key pair for this purpose. You copy the public key to the remote machine, and use ssh-agent on the local machine to keep the private key authenticated. (Otherwise you will need to enter the key's passphrase to connect.) As fglock said, man ssh will provide you with plenty of information - Googling for ssh tutorial will also reveal a wealth of quickstart help.

      Makeshifts last the longest.

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        thanks for your valuable feedback. i am in better shape now. regards.
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