/archives/*": 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
Archive failed: ArchivePreUserCmd returned error status 512

I tried the exact same command in a shell and it worked fine.
Regards,
Peter

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 02:36:52AM +1300, Peter McKenna wrote:

> I'm trying to run a command rm /archives/*.gz as a ArchivePreUserCmd to
> remove old archives on a removable disk before doing the latest archive.
> It doesn't work.
> The archives work fine but the old pnes are not deleted. If I check
> UserCmdCheckStatus I get this error
> Executing ArchivePreUserCmd: rm /archives/*
> 
> rm: cannot remove `/archives/*': No such file or directory
> Archive failed: ArchivePreUserCmd returned error status 256
> 
> I tried another command like dd if=/dev/zero of=/archives/test count=512 and it worked fine, but cd /archives did not.
> The archives folder has 777 permissions. 
> 
> I can't figure this out. Any help would be appreciated.

Try /bin/sh -c 'rm /archives/*'

The shell does the expansion of '*'.

HTH,

Tino.

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