On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 02:43:12PM -0500, Frank J. Gómez wrote:
> Paranoid person that I am, I followed the instructions here (
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html) to run tar in a way that
> would not allow the backuppc user to become root.
> 
> I tried wrapping tar up using the script in the documentation:
> #!/bin/sh -f
> exec /bin/tar -c $*

Hmm, on first glance I would have expected the $* to be "$@"

Try:

   exec /bin/tar -c "$@"

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