Could it be that ${aShellFile} contains the name of a shell script? You usually can't exec a shell script directly.
-----Original Message----- From: Davis, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 4:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: Using ant on Redhat/S390 Sent from VMESA List -----Original Message----- From: Hahne, Ronald Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 21:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Using ant on Redhat/S390 Any one using ant on above referenced platform having trouble with ant task: <exec executable="${aShellFile}"/> When ever I execute ant with this task I get the following error msg from ant: [exec] Warning: UNIXProcess.forkAndExec native error: Exec format error [exec] Result: 255 Does any one have any ideas about this? Thank you in advance, Ron Hahne ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390