On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 10:29, Patrick Dunford wrote: > Hi, just trying a very simple hello world script > > #!/bin/bash > echo Hello World > > saved as helloworld > > Trying to run this ./helloworld > > returns > > bash: ./helloworld: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied > > whereis bash returns > > bash: /bin/bash /etc/bash/bash.rc /usr/share/man/man1/bash.gz > > This is the same whether logged in as root or not. What is happening here?
Your script is not executable? $ chmod +x helloworld $ ./helloworld Also, you can run the script under a shell (ignoring the #! line) with $ bash ./helloworld BTW, trying things as root "just in case" is terribly bad - please don't do it. -jim
