that looks like a perl script, and that error message looks to be from bash. i think the first line should be
#!/usr/bin/perl but i could be wrong. free to try tho :) On 12/11/09, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > After setting up the bank and vault, the HOWTO says I need to initialize > the backups. The script is failing at line 4. > > [r...@salmo ~]# dirvish --vault salmo.appl-ecosys.com --init > /usr/local/sbin/dirvish: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token (' > /usr/local/sbin/dirvish: line 4: $VERSION = ('$Name: Dirvish-1_2_1 $' =~ > /Dirvish/i)' > > Here are the first 7 lines of /usr/local/sbin/dirvish: > > # $Id: dirvish.pl,v 12.0 2004/02/25 02:42:15 jw Exp $ $Name: > Dirvish-1_ > > $VERSION = ('$Name: Dirvish-1_2_1 $' =~ /Dirvish/i) > ? ('$Name: Dirvish-1_2_1 $' =~ m/^.*:\s+dirvish-(.*)\s*\$$/i)[0] > : '1.1.2 patch' . ('$Id: dirvish.pl,v 12.0 2004/02/25 02:42:15 jw > Exp > =~ m/^.*,v(.*:\d\d)\s.*$/)[0]; > $VERSION =~ s/_/./g; > > I appreciate one of you with a working script telling me how to fix that > line so it works. > > TIA, > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug