[Bug 1309710] Re: Backups broken when "ssh_args" are set

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This bug was fixed in the package rsnapshot - 1.3.1-4ubuntu1

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rsnapshot (1.3.1-4ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/14_rsync_rsh_quoting.diff: remove quoting on the
    --rsh arguments to rsync due to the different way rsync is invoked
    via system() in 1.3.1-4 (LP: #1309710)
 -- Steve Beattie <sbeattie at ubuntu.com>   Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:26:43 -0700

** Changed in: rsnapshot (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Backups broken when "ssh_args" are set

Status in “rsnapshot” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “rsnapshot” source package in Trusty:
  New
Status in “rsnapshot” package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  In ubuntu 14.04 LTS, rsnapshot 1.3.1-4 is broken when 'ssh_args' are
  set in the rsnapshot configuration file. For example, I set ssh_args
  to '-p 22022', which causes my rsnapshot backup to fail with he
  following error:

    rsync: Failed to exec /usr/bin/ssh -p 22022: No such file or directory (2)
    rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at pipe.c(85) [Receiver=3.1.0]

  This worked in saucy's 1.3.1-3 rsnapshot; the newer version has
  changed the way rsync is invoked from rsnapshot, passing an array to
  perl's system() function (which is not interpreted by a shell before
  being exec()ed) rather than a constructed single string, which is
  interpreted by a shell, and thus requires the arguments passed to
  rsync's -rsh argument to be quoted so as to be gathered into a single
  argument by the shell.

  (This was also reported in debian bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
  bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717451)

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