I was trying to configure a remote system to be backed up with Rsync, but I'm wondering if I misunderstand the way the rsync is designed to run in server mode over ssh. I set up a rsync server on the host to be backed up, running out of inetd. I can connect locally from the server and things seem to work. From my remote workstation, however, I tried to connect like this: rsync -e "ssh -l ssh-user" backup-user@server.net::root/ I get an error message saying that "rsyncd.conf" cannot be found. It's in /etc and appears to be found when I connect to the server from a shell account locally. So, I'm guessing that when I connect remotely, rsync is trying to start up a server using the ssh-user account and is looking for rsyncd.conf in /home/ssh-user. Is that what's going on? Is there some way to connect to the remote server running under inetd, so that I can still tunnel through ssh?