trouble running shell/batch command on linux host #4224

I'm having trouble running a command formatted in the following way:

hostname; id; ssh user@host "/home/user/some_script.sh"

I get the error Cannot run program "hostname;" The step works fine without the hostname; id;, but unfortunately we need to add that now to the command and can't get it working.

Locally on the build host, I can run this single line command just fine.

Some things I've tried:

putting the entire command line in quotes
using command line execution instead of shell/batch
running in legacy/non legacy mode (shell/batch and command line step types)

I'm not sure what else to try here. Is there a reason this doesn't work in the step and works locally? This particular server is running an older version of Quickbuild (6.0.28).