connecting to rsync daemon via ssh

On two Solaris boxes (Solaris 8), I am trying to connect to an rsync
daemon through an ssh tunnel. I have read the FAQ and both manuals and
what is documented does not seem to work...

Connecting Directly:
server# cat /opt/local/etc/rsync.conf
log file = /opt/local/log/rsyncd.log
pid file = /opt/local/log/rsyncd.pid

[test]
comment = Testing deamon options
path = /tmp/rsync
list = true

server# /opt/local/bin/rsync -vv --daemon
--config=/opt/local/etc/rsyncd.conf

client% /opt/local/bin/rsync -av --rsync-path=/opt/local/bin/rsync
server::test
receiving file list ... done
drwxrwxr-x 420 2005/12/05 18:25:40 .
-rw-rw-r-- 0 2005/12/05 18:26:01 a
-rw-rw-r-- 0 2005/12/05 18:26:04 bunch
-rw-rw-r-- 0 2005/12/05 18:26:11 dummy
-rw-rw-r-- 0 2005/12/05 18:26:14 files
-rw-rw-r-- 0 2005/12/05 18:26:07 of

sent 81 bytes received 148 bytes 458.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00

Works great... But now I want to connect via ssh:
client$ /opt/local/bin/rsync -vv -e "ssh -l myuser" -av
--rsync-path=/opt/local/bin/rsync server::test .
opening connection using ssh -l myuser server /opt/local/bin/rsync
--server --daemon .
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far)
[receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
io.c(434)

And there is nothing in the log file.

This is eventually going through a firewalled connection that I don't
want to open 873 up and I would like the transfer to be encrypted --
hence doing this over SSH.

Any sugestions would be great!

Ops... I am running version 2.6.6.

Ok, I have several solutions but none I like::

1) Create a tunnel outside the rsync process...
ssh -L 10355:server:873 server sleep 9999999 &
sleep 1
netstat -an | egrep 10355
rsync -vv -a --port=10355 localhost::test
This can lead to hung connections since the ssh never is cleanly killed
and bash never liked a "kill %1" command.

2) Copy the rsyncd.conf into my home directory (or create a link to
the server version).

This worked and I will probably run with this one for now, but in the
event someone goes and tries to clean up a home directory, this could
easily break. ## Must Document this one.

-- Better one that did not work --
In an older article:
[url]http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2004-February/008736.html[/url]

A key file was suggested. This caused a prompt to come up and it still
failed to have the right pathing. Here is what the key-file had:
command="/opt/local/bin/rsync --server --daemon --config
/opt/local/etc/rsyncd.conf"

If anyone has a better solution, please pass it along.

Chris