Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:14:21 -0400 (EDT) From: William Melanson <wjm@gate.net> To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dan=20Fairs?= <danfairs@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shell Script Execution Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.21.0007281210140.517290-100000@tiwa.gate.net> In-Reply-To: <20000727202720.27708.qmail@web3206.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, [iso-8859-1] Dan Fairs wrote: % Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:27:20 +0100 (BST) % From: "[iso-8859-1] Dan Fairs" <danfairs@yahoo.co.uk> % To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG % Subject: Shell Script Execution % % Hi all, % % This is a silly little problem, but I can't figure out what's going on. % I'm setting up qmail (incidentally) and have created the startup % script. On trying to execute it, this happens: % % [root@bonsai rc.d]$ ./qmail.sh cdb % bash: ./qmail.sh: No such file or directory % [root@bonsai rc.d]$ ls -l qmail.sh % -rwxr-xr-- 1 root wheel 2492 Jul 27 20:11 qmail.sh % [root@bonsai rc.d]$ whoami % root % [root@bonsai rc.d]$ file qmail.sh % qmail.sh: Bourne shell script text % [root@bonsai rc.d]$ head qmail.sh % #!/bin/sh % % PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin % export PATH % % case "$1" in % start) % echo -n "Starting qmail: svscan" % cd /var/qmail/supervise % env - PATH="$PATH" svscan & % [root@bonsai rc.d]$ which sh % /bin/sh % [root@bonsai rc.d]$ % % % % So why am I getting that "No such file..." error? Everything seems to % be there, with permissions set... It's clearly something obvious that % I'm missing. % % Help much appreciated. % % Regards, % Dan % % Dan, Try executing this script in a troubleshooting mode whereas you can see each operation within the actual script being printed to standard-output. If there is an path/syntax error within this script it'll surely be pointed towards. [root@bonsai rc.d]$ sh -x ./qmail.sh cdb ./bill --------------------------------oOo------------------------------------ William J. Melanson CyberGate, Inc. | e.spire Communications Sr Network Controller www.gate.net ---- www.espire.net Network Operations Center Phone: (954) 334-8080 finger wjm@gate.net PGP public key --------------------------------oOo------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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