From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 18 09:39:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA21266 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 09:39:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from bell.cs.strath.ac.uk (mmdf@bell.cs.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.126]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA21260 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 09:39:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from neilson.cs.strath.ac.uk by bell.cs.strath.ac.uk id aa27932; 18 Jan 96 17:39 GMT To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: phil@cs.strath.ac.uk, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: execve won't load interpreters In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jan 96 07:56:42 PST." <24778.821980602@time.cdrom.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 96 17:39:10 +0000 From: Philip Murray Message-ID: <9601181739.aa27932@bell.cs.strath.ac.uk> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Of course it works! Ignore my last message! I am used to laughing at other peoples mistakes but mine is the worst I have seen. My girlfriend wrote the scripts (well cut and paste from the handbook) and forgot to remove the spaces from the left hand side! I looked and looked for something wrong but was too stupid to see it! (I guess I *still* haven't recovered from the New Year festivities) Sorry I wasted peoples time :-( I will just go and hide my face in a corner now! Thanks, Phil (the idiot). In message <24778.821980602@time.cdrom.com> you write: >execve() should deal just fine with scripts. Are you sure they start >with: > >#!/some/path/to/an/executable > >Properly? Can you execute them when you are su'd to `bin'? > > Jordan >> >> Hi, >> I would first like to say I am impressed with FreeBSD - it is good to be >> able to have a *REAL* OS at home (and its FREE)! But unfortunately I do have >> a problem. >> . . . Very, very stupid mistake deleted! . . . >> >> Phil. >