Re: #! /bin/sh bash problem

[John B. Brown]

Dear Bob,

        Thank you for that reminder of my mortality.

Bob Proulx wrote:
> John B. Brown wrote:
> > Description: Attempting to run 'configure', or any shell 
> > script with #! /bin/sh,  results in the error message:
> >
> > 	"bash: ./configure: /usr/bin/bash: bad interpreter: 
> > Permission denied"
>
> I suspect that the permissions on /usr/bin/bash are preventing you
> from running it.  What does this following say?
>
>   ls -ld /usr/bin/bash
>
> Also, /usr/bin/bash is not a normal location for bash.  Normally bash
> would reside in /bin/bash .  Perhaps you also have one there?
>
>   ls -ld /bin/bash /usr/local/bin/bash
>
> Bob

jbb@pinball:~
(23):% ls -ld /usr/bin/bash /bin/bash /usr/local/bash
/bin/ls: cannot access /usr/local/bash: No such file or 
directory
-rwsrwsr-x 1 root root  604040 2007-09-21 16:16 /bin/bash*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2037410 2008-01-30 05:35 /usr/bin/bash*
jbb@pinball:~
(24):% /usr/bin/bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.0(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
jbb@pinball:~
(25):% /bin/bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (i586-suse-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
jbb@pinball:~

	Argh! I guess I get to REMOVE  the bash I installed in 
error in that piece of junk location.

        So much for compiling by myself.

	I must remember to set the proper --prefix in the configure 
process; dueling bashes just doesn't make it.

        Shalom,

        John B. Brown.
        [jbb@vcn.com]
        358 High Street,
        Buffalo, Wyoming
        82834

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