Re: curiosity: quoting in /etc/default
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Ross Boylan <ross@biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
> I was a little surprised to find that I needed to quote my variable
> definitions in /etc/default, at least for nfs-kernel-server.
> RPCMOUNTDOPTS="--manage-gids --no-nfs-version 4"
> works, but
> RPCMOUNTDOPTS=--manage-gids --no-nfs-version 4
> produces
> # /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart
> /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server: line 12: --no-nfs-version: command not
> found
>
> Is it generally the case that multi-word arguments should be quoted
> in /etc/default?
>
> /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server includes
> start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --quiet \
> --exec $PREFIX/sbin/rpc.mountd -- $RPCMOUNTDOPTS
> I don't see -- mentioned in the man page for start-stop-daemon or
> rpc.mountd.
The arguments after "--" are passed by start-stop-daemon to the
executable specified by "--exec".
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