Ralf Brinkmann wrote: > Foo schrieb: > >> So I added in the job definition of the machine: >> >> ClientRunBeforeJob = "svnadmin --quiet dump /var/svnrepo >>> /tmp/svnrepo_backup.svn_dump; gzip -9 /tmp/svnrepo_backup.svn_dump" >> ClientRunAfterJob = "rm -f /tmp/svnrepo_backup.svn_dump.gz" >> >> This fails with: >> >> ClientRunBeforeJob: svnadmin: invalid option character: 9 >> ClientRunBeforeJob: Type 'svnadmin help' for usage. >> Error: Runscript: ClientRunBeforeJob returned non-zero status=1. >> ERR=Child exited with code 1 > > (Client)RunBefore/AfterJob: > sticking commands one after another on one line separated by semicolon > seems not to work propperly.
That's because treating the semicolon as a command separator is a function of the shell. The problem isn't that you're not escaping the shell characters, the problem is that there's no shell there to treat them as special characters in the first place. From the RunScript section of http://bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION001430000000000000000 --8<-- In addition, the command string is parsed then fed to the OS, which means that the path will be searched to execute your specified command, but there is no shell interpretation, as a consequence, if you invoke complicated commands or want any shell features such as redirection or piping, you must call a shell script and do it inside that script. --8<-- -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
