Re: #! /bin/sh bash problem

[Bob Proulx]

John B. Brown wrote:
>       Thank you for that reminder of my mortality.

:-)

> Bob Proulx wrote:
> >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

I suggested looking at /usr/local/bin/bash since that is another
typical location.

> (23):% ls -ld /usr/bin/bash /bin/bash /usr/local/bash
> /bin/ls: cannot access /usr/local/bash: No such file or directory

It is probably not an issue here but you looked at /usr/local/bash
instead of where I suggested.  It didn't exist.  I doubt the
/usr/local/bin/bash exists either.  But I wanted to note that these
were different paths.

> -rwsrwsr-x 1 root root  604040 2007-09-21 16:16 /bin/bash*

How did that happen?  Fix that immediately, if not sooner.

  chmod a=rx,u+w /bin/bash 

Then also go check other files in your bin directory to make sure you
didn't have an errant command set them all.

> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2037410 2008-01-30 05:35 /usr/bin/bash*

That looks okay.  But it doesn't match your previous error message.
I assume you were continuing to make changes after your last message
because this one shouldn't have given a permission denied one.  I
expected to see that this wasn't executable at all.

>       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.

Careful when compiling and upgrading systems in place.  A breakage can
break your entire system to the point that you might not be able to
use it to fix itself.  Make sure you have a rescue process available.

Bob