On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 03:16:45AM +1300, Peter McKenna wrote:
> Thanks for your help.
> It almost worked. It came up with this error
> Executing ArchivePreUserCmd: /bin/sh -c 'rm /archives/*'
> 
> /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.

Try using double quotes instead of the single quotes, e.g.
/bin/sh -c "rm /archives/*"
If it does not work, create a shell script, e.g. 
/usr/local/sbin/archivepreusercmd.sh with the following content:

#!/bin/bash
#

rm /archives/*

Make it executable, then use it as ArchivePreUserCmd.

Tino.

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