From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: robinb@ruffnready.co.uk (Robin Birch) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:27:41 +0100 Subject: [pups] Installing begemot In-Reply-To: <7AD18F04B62B7440BE22E190A3F772140F6047@mwsrv04.microwalt.nl> References: <7AD18F04B62B7440BE22E190A3F772140F6047@mwsrv04.microwalt.nl> Message-ID: In message <7AD18F04B62B7440BE22E190A3F772140F6047 at mwsrv04.microwalt.nl>, Fred N. van Kempen writes >> I have a different problem as well. There is something broken in the >> configuration of this computer!!!!! If I execute a shell >> file by going >> /bin/sh filename then it works ok but if I try running a shell script >> with #!/bin/sh in the first line I get a bad permission >> error. This is >> preventing me from running make scripts and all sorts of things. Any >> ideas? >Make sure the scripts have mode 0755 (or 0555, or whatever, as >long as you have both read AND execute perm on the file... > >--f Done that. What happens is that sometimes I get a permissions complaint but sometimes I get a "bad interpreter" message. If I execute the shell with the file name as a parameter then it all works. I'm stumped. Robin -- Robin Birch