Hm. You know, I thought I'd tried that. Maybe I left out the quotes. That
did the trick. Thanks!
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:58 PM, John Rouillard <rouilj-backu...@renesys.com
> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 02:43:12PM -0500, Frank J. Gómez wrote:
> > Paranoid person that I am, I followed the instructions here (
> > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html) to run tar in a way
> that
> > would not allow the backuppc user to become root.
> >
> > I tried wrapping tar up using the script in the documentation:
> > #!/bin/sh -f
> > exec /bin/tar -c $*
>
> Hmm, on first glance I would have expected the $* to be "$@"
>
> Try:
>
> exec /bin/tar -c "$@"
>
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