[fetchmail]Re: Re: multi-hop ssh

[Derek Broughton]

Jakob Hirsch wrote:

> 
>> fetchmail: running ssh derek@io.acad.athabascau.ca 'ssh \
>>  pointers@pointerstop.ca /usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/imapd mail' \
>>  (host pointerstop.ca service 143)
>> bash: line 1: ssh pointers@pointerstop.ca /usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/imapd
>> \
>>  mail: No such file or directory
> 
> Didn't test that, but he's probably trying to exec 'ssh
> pointers@pointerstop.ca /usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/imapd mail' as the full
> name of a file. Did you try leaving out the ticks at all?
> (Like: ssh somehost ssh anotherhost /path/to/imapd mail)

Yes!  Thanks very much, that does the trick.  Bash is mysterious enough, but 
apparently now I need to relearn quoting.
-- 
derek