I have been running rsync over ssh to a remote server without problems for months. After an update from SuSE 7.2 to 8.1, I always get the following error: "rsync: failed to connect to localhost: Connection refused rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(97)" Details: the rsync server port 873 is forwarded to 8073 on the client, so the client connects to the server as localhost:8073. The ssh-connection seems to work, because I can do a remote-login and issue commands on the remote server. With a running ssh-connection, I tried to connect to the forwarded port with telnet and got the following results: telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused (in local telnet window: when trying forwarded port 8073 -> 873) channel_open_failure: 2: reason 2 Connection refused (in remote ssh window: when trying forwarded port 5908 -> 5908) ssh-command for the connection: su - -c \ "/usr/bin/ssh -l USER1 -C -p 69 SERVER1 \ -L 5908:IP1:5908 \ -L 8073:IP2:873" where USER1 is the username for the connection (local and remote are identical) SERVER1 is the server address IP1 and IP2 are IP-Adresses of forwarded servers. rsync-command for the connection: rsync -v --port=8073 --password-file=/etc/PASSWDFILE localhost::(...) where PASSWDFILE is the crypted password for the rsync-connection (...) are the share-names of the rsync-server. Probably there is a problem on my local system after the system update, because all this worked fine before. Trying the older ssh and rsync-versions leads to the same results. Anybody an idea about that? Thanks in advance Klaus. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html