[pups] Installing begemot

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Friday, 13 August 2004 at  8:19:15 +0100, Robin Birch wrote:
> In message <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10408121627090.18049-100000 at moe.2bsd.com>,
> Steven M. Schultz <sms at 2BSD.COM> writes
>>
>> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>>
>>> iota: try 1109$ ./bad
>>> : bad interpreter: No such file or directory
>>> iota: try 1110$ cat bad
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> date
>>> iota: try 1111$ od -c bad
>>> 0000000   #   !   /   b   i   n   /   s   h  \r  \n   d   a   t   e  \n
>>> 0000020
>>> iota: try 1112$
>>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>>
>>> Note that there is a '\r' character at the end of the #! line.
>>
>>      And that's the cause of the problem.  The kernel is scanning for
>>      '\n' and when it finds the (unix) end-of-line character it then
>>      tries to exec the program "/bin/sh\r" and fails.
>>
>>      Was the original script created on a windoze box perhaps?  Or was
>>      a different method of getting a \r  used? :)
>>
>>      Cheers,
>>      Steven Schultz
>>
> Hi Steve,
> Long time no chat.
>
> The scripts were tar'd off a Mandrake linux system then untar'd on a
> SuSE system.  Something has got munged in the process I guess.
>
> What I'll do is a make really clean and then tr the whole thing to add
> \n instead of \r and start again.

Judging by the above, you want to remove the \r, not change them to
\n.

Greg
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