Les Mikesell wrote at about 07:41:04 -0500 on Tuesday, September 17, 2013:
 > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 6:38 AM, Dennis Ditte <dennis AT double-d DOT it> 
 > wrote:
 > >
 > >
 > > If the (implied) script is simple as per the OP's desire to run just
 > > two shell commands, it would be easier to use 'bash -c'
 > > I think the following would work...
 > >
 > > $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = 'bash -c "touch /var/lock/backuppc/BackupPC;
 > > $sshPath -q -x -l root $host touch /var/lock/backuppc/BackupPC"';
 > >
 > > I haven't tested that but I don't see why it wouldn't work...
 > >
 > >
 > > I tested it and it don't work. I think the  " " are a problem. I tried to 
 > > escape them with \ but it doesn't work:
 > >
 > > Executing DumpPostUserCmd: bash -c "rm -rf 
 > > /var/lock/backuppc/backuppc-10.1.1.10; /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root 
 > > 10.1.1.10 rm -rf /var/lock/backuppc/backuppc-10.1.1.10"
 > > -rf: -c: Zeile 0: End of file 'is reached when searching for `".
 > > -rf: -c: Zeile 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file..
 > >
 > > Executing DumpPostUserCmd: bash -c \"rm -rf 
 > > /var/lock/backuppc/backuppc-10.1.1.10; /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root 
 > > 10.1.1.10 rm -rf /var/lock/backuppc/backuppc-10.1.1.10\"
 > > -rf: "rm: Command not found.
 > >
 > > Any ideas?
 > 
 > Backuppc is going to run the command with exec(), not system() so I
 > don't think passing a double-quoted string is going to work even if
 > you execute your own shell to parse it.   Is there some problem with
 > putting the commands in a shell script file and making that your
 > command?
 > 
 > -- 
 >   Les Mikesell
 >      lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
 > 
Well, I perhaps wrongly assumed it work since I know it does work when
I pass 'bash -c' as part of my ssh command and use double
quotes... but I recall that it is a bit tricky of when and how to use
and to escape the different nested quotes...


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