On 09/10/15, Robert Moskowitz wrote: --------------- Quoted text ------------------ SSh is not parsing the port the way http does, it seems: $ rsync -ah --stats root at 192.168.129.2:613:/etc/dhcp/ /home/rgm/data/htt/httnet/homebase/new/dhcp ssh: connect to host 192.168.129.2 port 22: No route to host rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver] rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.1] The reason why I change my SSH port is a simple way to keep port knocker robots away. Different hosts use different ports... ------------------ End quote -------------------- Oh, right, so you either need to put that in your .ssh/config file or use -e 'ssh -p 613' on the rsync command. The config file should look like this: Host 192.168.129.2 Port 613