Your message dated Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:39:26 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#687622: /sbin/start-stop-daemon: start-stop-daemon breaks options containing whitespaces has caused the Debian Bug report #687622, regarding /sbin/start-stop-daemon: start-stop-daemon breaks options containing whitespaces to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.8.12 Severity: normal File: /sbin/start-stop-daemon When specifying arguments with whitespace in /etc/default/foo, start-stop-daemon will break these when passing them to the daemon: /etc/default/foo ARGS="-c 'bar quux'" /etc/init.d/foo start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS The daemon will then parse it's options as: op=/c/ optarg=/'bar / (slashes added to mark begining and end of text) The only workaround I found so far is: /etc/default/foo ARGS="-a -b" C="bar quux" /etc/init.d/foo [ -n "$C" ] && ARGS="$ARGS -c" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS "$C" Regards Stefan -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 8.5-1 GNU core utilities ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6+squeeze1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.11.3-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Advanced front-end for dpkg -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 12:40:02 +0200, Stefan Voelkel wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.15.8.12 > Severity: normal > File: /sbin/start-stop-daemon > > When specifying arguments with whitespace in /etc/default/foo, > start-stop-daemon will break these when passing them to the daemon: Actually it's your shell who's breaking out those arguments where you don't want. s-s-d just takes whatever it's been given and passes it through to the daemon. > The only workaround I found so far is: > > /etc/default/foo > > ARGS="-a -b" > C="bar quux" > > /etc/init.d/foo > > [ -n "$C" ] && ARGS="$ARGS -c" > start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS "$C" You could fix it with something like this for example: # start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON -- `eval echo $ARGS` Closing as there's no bug here. regards, guillem
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