Re: [Alug]Bourne shell script for APM: help request

Richard Kettlewell <rjk@terraraq.org.uk> wrote:

The unquoted $PARAMS is being split into separate arguments _to start-stop-daemon_ on the whitespace it contains. There's nothing you can put in the value of PARAMS that will stop this. With this approach there is no way to write arguments that contain spaces as you need.

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