On Saturday 29 January 2005 22:32, Robert L Cochran wrote: > I'm trying to run a small shell script to supply options to the > configure script in postgresql 8.0, which was released a few days ago. > When I try to do this in Fedora Core 3, I get thiis mesage: > > bash: ./configit.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied > > I'm doing this from a second hard drive that I've mounted. The second > drive has an older release of Fedora Core on it: > > [rlc@bobcp4 postgresql-8.0.0]$ pwd > /mnt/any/home/rlc/postgresql-8.0.0 > > Here is the directory listing for the script I want to execute: > > -rwxrwxr-x 1 rlc rlc 155 Jan 29 22:22 configit.sh > > What am I doing wrong -- why am I getting the "Permission denied" messages? > > Thanks > > Bob Cochran The error you're getting is not about the script itsself but the interpreter used for it.. Look at the first line of configit.sh - it should start with #!/bin/sh what's the output of "ls -la /bin/sh" ? Also do you have selinux enabled? Peter.
