Hi Tank and jeffa,

Tank, you have exposed some of my ignorance of protocols and their capabilities. I know I can use scp to easily bring the information over. That's about it.

jeffa, I think you are hitting on what I need to do and in fact your explanation does more than I need. Basically, I could sure use that Socket part to pass information, as well as the ability for the remote server to fetch that value and spawn a simple script. It doesn't need to give any information back to the source server.

Well, I guess I'll study the Socket mod and see how to pass the info and spawn a program.

Thanks!

Tony