Hello Folks, I am wondering what could be the problem now. I have succeeded in having an ssh login without password request. Reaching the last stage of creating the rbackup.sh, that's where I got the problem. I made this file executable by running this command chmod +x rbackup.sh Now, when I run this command (./backup.sh) to execute it, I get errors .....complaining of the source on line 53. The errors appear as follows; :command not foundbackup.sh: line 1: :command not foundbackup.sh: line 5: :command not foundbackup.sh: line 8: :command not foundbackup.sh: line 11: :command not foundbackup.sh: line 14: :command not foundbackup.sh: line 17: :command not foundbackup.sh: line 21: :command not foundbackup.sh: line 32: :command not foundbackup.sh: line 35: :command not foundbackup.sh: line 39: ' home/iearn/rsync/rbackup.sh: line 53 syntax error near unexpected token 'do ' home/iearn/rsync/rbackup.sh: line 53: 'for source in $SOURCES; do and line 53 appears as follows in the rbackup; echo "Verifying Sources..." for source in $SOURCES; do echo "Checking $source..." if [ ! -x $source ]; then echo "Error with $source!" echo "Directory either does not exist, or you do not have proper permissions." exit 2 fi done Any help is highly appreciated.. I am actually using Apple OS --Ahmed -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed