Ah-HA!
The script was in DOS format!!! (Too bad none of the errors really hinted
in that direction).
What's the sed command to convert it again?
Dan Browning
Network Administrator
Cyclone Computer Systems
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Barnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 11:45 AM
> To: Dan Browning; Greg Olszewski
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Getting RedHat to understand the perl shebang
>
>
>
> Try this (while logged into a shell)
>
> /bin/sh
> echo "#!`which perl` -w" > file
> echo "print (\"Hello World\\\n\");" >> file
> chmod 755 file
> ./file
>
> It shoudl print "Hello World"
>
> Also if there is a space between the # and the ! it will give an
> error ('_'
> means space here)
>
>
> #_!/usr/bin/perl_-w (wrong)
> _#!/usr/bin/perl_-w (wrong)
> #!_/usr/bin/perl_-w (wrong)
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl_-w (right)
>
> The only space that should be in there is for the "-w" flag.
>
> Also do a `which perl` and `whereis perl`
>
> then do a `perl -v` and it should print out some version information.
>
> Oh, RedHat I just seen that. One of their distro had a glitch in it,
> causeing Perl not to work correctly. What version are you using? IIRC
> RedHat 5.0 *or* RedHat 5.1 had this glitch with Perl in it. I know for a
> fact 5.2 does NOT have the glitch, 6.x shouldn't have this problem either.
>
> If you are running 5.0 or 5.1 please check http://www.redhat.com and get
> some more information there, I forget which version has the bug in it, but
> either way you should check it out.
>
> Jack
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dan Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Greg Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 1:14 PM
> Subject: RE: Getting RedHat to understand the perl shebang
>
>
> > Maybe these will help?
> >
> > # ./configure.pl
> > bash: ./configure.pl: No such file or directory
> > # perl ./configure.pl
> > (script runs as normal)
> > # ls -la /usr/bin/perl:
> > -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 517052 Aug 30 1999 /usr/bin/perl
> > # head -n 1 configure.pl
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > # ls -la configure.pl
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root administ 2528 Mar 22 20:04 configure.pl
> >
> > /home, the dir I'm in, is not mounted no-exec. Any other ideas?
> >
> >
> > Dan Browning
> > Network Administrator
> > Cyclone Computer Systems
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Greg Olszewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 8:09 PM
> > > To: Dan Browning
> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: Getting RedHat to understand the perl shebang
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 08:02:51PM -0800, Dan Browning wrote:
> > > > I cannot execute perl scripts ala: "./dostuff.pl", even with the
> correct
> > > > #!/usr/bin/perl, and 755 permissions. I have to prepend "perl"
> > > in order to
> > > > exec the script. Any guesses on this one?
> > > >
> > > The partition it's on is mounted noexec?
> > >
> > > Dunno... What error do you get(exactly)? Is perl actually in
> /usr/bin?
> > > > 64mb RAM on SCSI.
> > > Ouch! Access time must kill you :-)
> > >
> > > have fun,
> > >
> > > greg
> > > --
> > > dronf!
> > >
> >
> >
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