[snip] Is PHP a correct approach to solve this tedious problem?? Can I access a servers and get the results of a ls command for instance?? [/snip] You can use some of PHP's functions, such as readdir() (roughly an ls in PHP land http://www.php.net/readdir ). You can also use exec (to execute) and other commands like fopen (to read, write, append). PHP will actually work pretty well. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php