On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:43:39AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Test example. > > I need to sync a directory from my machine to another that is using port > 722 rather than 22. I can use ssh -pm722, scp -P 722 fine but I prefer > rsync for the backup due to configuration flexibility. The man says: > > rsync [OPTION...] SRC... rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:PORT]/DEST > > Which I translate to something like: > > rsync -avz /almacen/testDir rsync://backupMachine.com:722/backup/ > > but I get the following: > > rsync: server sent "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 FreeBSD-20080901" rather than > greeting > rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at > main.c(1504) [sender=3.0.4] > > I've tried variants to the point of no return. Help would be appreciated.
Check out the -e flag for rsync. There are examples of how to use this inside of the rsync(1) man page. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"