Re: rsync / ssh / Firewall "Hole" coolness

>      Synchronizing from office to home took a guess about how rsync would
> actually implement the "-e ssh" option and, because this "feature" isn't
> precisely documented, YMMV, but it seems to work on the four distributions I
> have at my disposal. Here is the command:
> rsync -v -r -e "ssh -p port" Common/ user@system:Common/
>      Substitute the correct values for port, user and system.
>      The "trick" is putting the ssh command option, the "-p port", inside the
> quotes with the "ssh" command itself to get ssh to use the specified port
> number. (The man page for "rsync" *also* talks about port numbers, but those
> are only relevent when using rsyncd *without* ssh.)