On Mon, February 5, 2007 0:37, Leland Helgerson said: > Hello Tim - > > Ok, here's some results - we may be onto something here: > > Ls -la /bin/sh gives this: > Lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-02-03 14:43 /bin/sh -> bash* > I think that's correct, that /bin/sh is an "alias" for bash, is that the > correct technology?
Close. It's called a symbolic link, or symlink. As long as you can do 'ls -la /bin/bash' and see something like: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 676836 2006-09-19 18:24 /bin/bash You should be good. Symlinks can link to symlinks can link to.... > But here's the strange thing: > Running bootstrap like this: ./bootstrap > Gives > -bash: ./bootstrap /bin/sh^M: bad interpeter: no such file or dir > > I dunno what "/bin/sh^M" means, but I'm not sure that's correct. There > must > be something wrong here, because I think to that it should execute > properly, > or I've goofed up on something during the install. > > Running > Bash ./bootstrap > Gives me the exact results as sh ./bootstrap, the same "command not > found" > line happens. > > I'm logged in as root. Could this be some sort of a priviledge problem? Nope. I believe that you copied the file down somehow and left the DOS line termination (ctl-M) and that's what's messing it up. How did you copy the files to your linux box? Tim -- Tim Sailer Coastal Internet, Inc. www.buoy.com 631-399-2910 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list Owfs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers