jpmadmin - 1:20 pm on Mar 14, 2012 (gmt 0)

Got it -- thanks !

As another option, I did find info on installing SSH2 Extension for PHP on CentOS 5 and it worked !

[blog.dynamichosting.biz...]

I'll be using PHP's ssh2 commands unless I hit a brick wall and need to re-visit CURL.

Thanks again for your help.