[pups] Installing begemot
Robin Birch
robinb at ruffnready.co.uk
Fri Aug 13 06:29:48 AEST 2004
In message <411BBDD3.3050400 at sun.com>, Chris Drake <chris.drake at sun.com>
writes
>I'd be interested in seeing your results and final analysis for begemot.
>I tried (briefly) getting it to run and gave up. Post 'em!
>
>> I have a different problem as well. There is something broken in the
>>configuration of this computer!!!!! If I execute a shell file by
>>going /bin/sh filename then it works ok but if I try running a shell
>>script with #!/bin/sh in the first line I get a bad permission error.
>
>Starting with the simplest possibility -- if you run "sh filename", all
>you need are read permissions on the file. If you run "filename" with the
>#!/bin/sh in the first line, the filename itself needs to have execute
>permissions enabled.
>
>Try chmod a+x filename and see if that helps.
>
>If that's not the issue, then more detail on the error message would be
>good. There are tons of different messages and if you don't get the exact
>right one when you're trying to debug, you can go down lots of wild rat
>holes...
>
> - Chris
>
Hi Chris,
The most curious one is a "bad interpreter" one. This is what I get
along with the permissions moan. But curiously if I run it sh filename
then all works.
It is as though there is some global shell permissions set up that is
munged.
Robin
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