And the next time the load fails for some reason, the person supporting it curses for putting such a complicated (convoluted?) process in place. :) I am not clear as to what is the "requirement" that you have, to do this. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martijn Bos Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 7:55 AM To: Dustin Hayden Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: sqlldr from remote machine On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:40:03PM +0000, Dustin Hayden wrote: > I can nfs mount the data on the server. > What I really need to know is how to call sqlldr from a scrip on the client machine. If you are using ssh then you could do something like : 'ssh <user>@<host> <command>' In this command is for instance your sqlldr command, or a script which handles the sqlldr stuff. So I think: 1 - make the data-input-file available to the server by nfs 2 - run the script on the client which a - starts a sqlldr script on the server-side by ssh (ssh <user>@<host> <script> or b - start the sqlldr on the server by ssh (ssh <user>@<host> <sqlldr command> ahum...you do need to distribute the public key onde to the server then. best regards, Martijn -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Please visit our website at http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/wealth/E-maildisclaimer.html for important disclosures and information about our e-mail policies. For your protection, please do not transmit orders or instructions by e-mail or include account numbers, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal information. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l