> Somehow my /etc/init.d/httpd script broke (i did not alter it), and i > dont know how to fix it, but i found out that simply running > "/usr/sbin/httpd" starts apache, but apachectl does not. So my plan was > to make a really simple script that runs "/usr/sbin/httpd" like the > following: > <snip> > > But it gives me this: > > : bad interpreter: No such file or directory > > Im no shell programmer, so i have no clue... Any ideas folks? > Hi Søren, The only time I have seen the error message you are getting is when the shebang line is incorrect. That's the first line that starts with: #!/bin/bash This tells the system where to find the program that will run the commands contained within the file. Since your file apparently references the default location of bash, try doing the following at the command line as the user who wants to execute that file: which bash If the bash executable can be found, it will tell you where it found it like this: [tom@frodo ~]$ which bash /bin/bash [tom@frodo ~]$ If the system can't find it, a message will displayed that looks something like this: [tom@frodo ~]$ which bashx /usr/bin/which: no bashx in (/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/lib/jre/ bin:/home/tom/bin) [tom@frodo ~]$ You also may want to ensure you are running the bash shell by executing the following: [tom@frodo ~]$ echo $SHELL /bin/bash [tom@frodo ~]$ If it doesn't come back with what I showed above, then you are running a different shell. If everything to this point looks good, you can always try looking at the permissions for the executable: [tom@frodo ~]$ ls -lZ /bin/bash -rwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:shell_exec_t /bin/bash [tom@frodo ~]$ I have SELinux enabled on my system, so the extra "Z" parameter shows the security contexts of the file as well as the regular permissions. Any variance from what is shown above may also factor into your problem. Give some of these things a try and let me know what you find. Shockwave
