Hi Guys, While I was configuring my new VPS box I realized that it may not be a good thing to keep port 22 as default for SSH connections. Thus I decided that it will be port 2224 for SSH communication. I love putty as all others, I am not a typical system admin but I love playing around with few things. CPanel is one of those things. One of the software that I use too often is rsync You can become expert user of rsync by just following this manual http://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync anyway this is not about explaining what rsync is, you are reading this post because you already know what rsync is. Now coming back to my original point, so I configure my VPS disabled my port 22 and enabled my port 2224 for SSH communications, If you don't know how I did this here is a tip for you Uncomment the line and put your desired port in as shown below You will need to allow your firewall to allow port 2224 for incoming All done then restart your sshd service as Now I wanted to rsync from my local server to my production VPS at port 2224 this is how I did it As you can see is that trick is to instruct rsync to connect to the non standard port that is done by this bit "ssh -p NEW_PORT_NUMBER" Above can be rewritten for port 2224 as You can add other flags if you wish, many a times we try to preserve permissions and owners at the target so that is one thing I always do else everything gets messed up. I hope this helps Cheers Advertisement       … [Read more...]