[CentOS] rsync question

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 09/11/2015 10:21 AM, C Linus Hicks wrote:
>   On 09/10/15, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
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> 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...
>
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>
> 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

So we end up back needing the -e option or modifying the config file.

thanks for your time.  Really.