[Lxc-users] How to execute smbtorture command using lxc-execute?

[Greg Kurz]

On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 11:25 +0530, nishant mungse wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using lxc-execute command and in place of command to execute i am
> using bin/smbtorture //nishant/ubuntu -Uubuntu_user%passwd raw.write
> test.
> 
> command::
> lxc-execute -n ubuntu_user
> -f /home/nishant/ubuntu.conf  /home/nishant/Desktop/samba-4.0.0alpha15/bin/smbtorture //localhost/ubuntu  -Uubuntu_user%npasswd raw.write
> 
> o/p
> lxc-execute: invalid option -- 'U'
> 
> 
> It is not recognizing this -U option which is required in case of
> smbtorture.
> 
> Can anyone plz tell me how to execute such command on containers?


You need to insert -- before the command to execute so that lxc doesn't
try to parse the remaining command line arguments:

lxc-execute -n ubuntu_user -f /home/nishant/ubuntu.conf -- smbtorture

Cheers.

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