bash problem!

[Wilbur Harvey]

Steven,
I had a similar problem once. It was because the script was actually 
looking for #!/bin/sh and wanted the "real" sh, not bash.
Wilbur

Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Monday, Jan 9th 2006 at 15:51 -0600, quoth John Pierce:
>
> =>Hello, I have just finished a new install fedora 4 and have created a
> =>simple shell script to run as a cron job.
> =>
> =>If I try to execute the script from the command line I get the following error.
> =>
> =>"bash: ./dailybup: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied"
> =>
> =>This script is located on an nfs share and if I move to any of the
> =>other 5 fedora 4 machines on the network the script executes without
> =>error.
> =>
> =>This is the content of the script
> =>
> =><<
> =>#!/bin/bash
> =>#
> =>#
> =>mkdir -p /data/diffs/`date +%F`
> =>>>
>
> 525 > vi foo.sh
> 526 > unix2dos foo.sh
> unix2dos: converting file foo.sh to DOS format ...
> 527 > chmod +x foo.sh
> 528 > ./foo.sh
> : bad interpreter: No such file or directory
> 529 > chmod -x foo.sh
> 530 > ./foo.sh
> bash: ./foo.sh: Permission denied
> 531 > 
>
> To fix the problem run dos2unix. You probably created the script in 
> Winbloze.
>
>
> =>
> =>I took out the mondoarchive step and the system still gives me the
> =>above mentioned error.
> =>
> =>This is the ll listing of /bin/bash on the problematic machine
> =>
> =>"-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 680824 May 10  2005 /bin/bash"
> =>
> =>and this is the ll listing of /bin/bash on one of the non problematic machines
> =>
> =>"-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 686520 May 10  2005 /bin/bash"
> =>
> =>rpm -qa | grep bash yields the following on the problematic machine
> =>
> =>"bash-3.0-31"
> =>
> =>the same command on one of the non problematic machines yields the following
> =>
> =>"bash-3.0-31"
> =>
> =>All six of the machines have been built using the same set of cd's and
> =>options for installation.
> =>
> =>Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
> =>
> =>Note:  I also checked the keyboard map and all is the same.
> =>
> =>John
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