I installed net::sftp and see I am successfully transferring the files to the remote server. Even though the file is put on the server, these are the last 2 lines of the output debug output. Couldn't fsetstat: Failure at ./TestSFTP line 17 hccssun5: sftp: Sent message T:4 I:7 The line indicated in the message is the sftp put line that transferred the file. I have my file name defined both as variables, with the same message displaying. my $source_file = "HCCSftpTest"; my $dest_file = "HCCSftpTest"; #$sftp put($source_file, $dest_file); $sftp put("HCCStest2", "HCCStest2"); I know the syntax of the put is supposed to have the arrow in it (which it does) but I take it out for this post. Any suggestions?