[pups] Installing begemot

[robinb@ruffnready.co.uk (Robin Birch)]

In message <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10408121627090.18049-100000 at moe.2bsd.com>, 
Steven M. Schultz <sms at 2BSD.COM> writes
>
>On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>
>> iota: try 1109$ ./bad
>> : bad interpreter: No such file or directory
>> iota: try 1110$ cat bad
>> #!/bin/sh
>> date
>> iota: try 1111$ od -c bad
>> 0000000   #   !   /   b   i   n   /   s   h  \r  \n   d   a   t   e  \n
>> 0000020
>> iota: try 1112$
>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>
>> Note that there is a '\r' character at the end of the #! line.
>
>       And that's the cause of the problem.  The kernel is scanning for
>       '\n' and when it finds the (unix) end-of-line character it then
>       tries to exec the program "/bin/sh\r" and fails.
>
>       Was the original script created on a windoze box perhaps?  Or was
>       a different method of getting a \r  used? :)
>
>       Cheers,
>       Steven Schultz
>
Hi Steve,
Long time no chat.

The scripts were tar'd off a Mandrake linux system then untar'd on a 
SuSE system.  Something has got munged in the process I guess.

What I'll do is a make really clean and then tr the whole thing to add 
\n instead of \r and start again.

Cheers

Robin
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