Re: start-stop-daemon and quoting in arguments

[Eric G.Miller <egm2@jps.net>]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 02:54:53 +0100, Karsten Heymann <karsten.heymann@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> somehow I'm lost with start-stop-daemon and quoting. I'm trying to let 
> a self-recompiled slapd server both ldap and ldaps. When invoked from
> the command line with
> 
>   slapd -d 255 -h "ldap:/// ldaps:///"
>  
> the debug output shows that both options are accepted. But I don't
> manage to create that line with start-stop-daemon. I've tried any
> combination of quoting the '"', the blank between the two entries or
> quoting nothing, none of them worked. Some examples:
> 
> start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/bin/slapd -- -h "ldap:/// ldaps:///"
> start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/bin/slapd -- -h "\"ldap:/// ldaps:///\""
> start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/bin/slapd -- -h "ldap:///\ ldaps:///"
> start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/bin/slapd -- -h "ldap:///\\ ldaps:///"
> 
> None of them worked. I feel really stuck. Please help me :-}

MYARG="ldap:/// ldaps:///"
DAEMON=/usr/bin/slapd

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

...

   start-stop-daemon --start --exec $DAEMON -- -h "$MYARG"

...  

Single quotes also work 'ldap:/// ldaps:///'

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>