On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Dennis Ditte <dennis AT double-d DOT it> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i need to execute two commands in the PreUserCmd/PostUserCmd. I tried it
> with this one:
> $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = 'touch /var/lock/backuppc/BackupPC && $sshPath
> -q -x -l root $host touch /var/lock/backuppc/BackupPC';
> and this one:
> $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = 'touch /var/lock/backuppc/BackupPC';
> $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = ' $sshPath -q -x -l root $host touch
> /var/lock/backuppc/BackupPC';
>
> At the first try, i can see in the logs that the Option -q is not valid
> FOR "touch". If i try the command as backuppc-user in the shell it works.
> The second try is also not working because only the last Line is executed.
>
> Is there a nice and easy way to do this?

Backuppc doesn't execute a shell to parse the commands before starting
them, so shell directives like && or ; aren't processed.  The easiest
way would be to put the commands you want to run in a shell script
file and execute the script from backuppc.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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