Topic: Cannot execute script!!

[Morten U. Hansen]

I have problems with the simplest script. It seems I cannot run the script create-mrtg mentioned in this How-To:
http://sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/howtos/howto_6.htm

The script (active lines) looks like this:
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#!/bin/bash
mkdir -p /home/e-smith/files/ibays/mrtg/html/$1
perl /usr/bin/cfgmaker public@$2 --global "workdir: /home/e-smith/files/ibays/mrtg/html/$1" --output /etc/mrtg/$1.cfg
perl /usr/bin/indexmaker /etc/mrtg/$1.cfg > /home/e-smith/files/ibays/mrtg/html/$1/index.html
echo "/usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/$1.cfg;" >> /etc/mrtg/all-ip
****
And I execute with this command: "./ create-mrtg server localhost
I get this error: bash: ./ is a directory

How do I get on with this How-To?

Earlier today I made another script starting with :  "#!/bin/bash" and run this flawlessly.

Thanks for any input

Morten

[Dan Brown]

Just a guess, but it looks like you've got a stray space in there.  Try this instead:

./create-mrtg server localhost

[Jesper Knudsen]

Hi Morten,

Did this solve the problem?

Rgds,
Jesper

[Morten U. Hansen]

Thanks Dan,

But still same problem:

[root@indsigt1 root]# ls
anaconda-ks.cfg  create  create-mrtg  install.log  install.log.syslog
[root@indsigt1 root]# ./create-mrtg server localhost
: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
[root@indsigt1 root]#

So no change even though I had put a space in there...

Hmm

Any other ideas?

Morten

[Dan Brown]

No, there was a change--it still doesn't work, but it's doing something different.  Had you possibly edited this file on a windows machine before putting it on your SME box?

[Morten U. Hansen]

Yes! - might this be the problem?

I find it easier to paste the scripts into a win-editor before putting it on the SME-server.

Is this a no-do...?

thnx

Morten

[Dan Brown]

Yes, this is almost certainly the problem.  Windows uses a different line terminator than Linux (and other *nix OSs), which will make the file more or less unusable on the *nix system.

[Brian Read]

Some Windows editors (such as "textpad"), will give you an option to save in a Unix format.

cheers

Brian

[Morten U. Hansen]

That's it!

I use an advanced hex/text editor named UltraEdit32, which can convert files to *nix format. And now it works.

I created the script ran it and it did all sorts of things. So now I have the *cfg file + the index file in the mrtg/server dir...

I think I'm getting there.

Thanks guys for your help.

Morten

[judgej]

Been tearing my hair out for hours trying to install mnogosearch, getting that bad interpreter error, and just could not see what was wrong. The problem is that vim/vi does not show the extra CR characters on the end of each line, so I did not even suspect the line endings.

Thanks for this thread guys

-- JJ