You want to pass the port parameter to ssh not to rsync use: rsync -e "ssh ssh-parameters-here" ... so rsync -e "ssh -p port#" ... On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Ed Morrison wrote: > I am trying to use rsinc to tranfer my ftp directory from one server to > another. I have port 22 closed off due to port knocking and I am trying to > direct rsync to use another port. Unfortunately I can't seem to get it to > use the specified port. Here is my command, if someone could point out my > error I would appreciate it: > > rsync -avr --port=XXX xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/var/ftp /var/ftp > > The error this generates is: > > ssh: connect to host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 22: Connection refused > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver] > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359) > > Thanks, > > Ed > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >