On 2005-12-01 19:48, Blue Raccoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 20:15:12 +0200 > Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When did those scripts run fine? What did you change since then? > > First of all I've been stupid. I used > # ./ script.name > when I should have used > # ./script.name > > Apparently, this is what causes the "permission denied".
Correct. > And I now remembered I started doing it this (wrong) way because I > could not run the 'sylpheed' script. As a newbie I had doubts... maybe > there should be a space?... No. The strange "./" string before the path of the script is just a way of telling to your shell that "yes, I really mean that you have to look for the executable of this program under the current directory". So, you shouldn't use a space. > But the 'sylpheed' script still would not run: "command not > found". There is only one command in the file (which works fine on the > command line) and a comment: #!/bin/bash I copied the script from the > web. There is no /bin/bash executable in FreeBSD. This is a false assumption that Linux users tend to fall for. If the script doesn't use any special, bash-specific constructs and it works fine with /bin/sh you can replace /bin/bash with /bin/sh in that line. > But apparently the comment is not a comment. When I remove it the > script works (not from firefox, but that's a different problem). It's not a comment. When a script starts with a line of the form: #!/some/path/to/an/intepreter/binary then FreeBSD recognizes this as a special "comment" and it runs the rest of the script (starting from line 2) as an interpreted script. The effect is pretty much the same as typing manually something like: /some/path/to/an/intepreter/binary script-file All these minor details are explained in detail in many books about using UNIX. It will help a great deal if you read at least one of the introductory texts about UNIX. Since you are apparently new to UNIX, suggested reading material is: "For People New to Both FreeBSD and UNIX" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/ "FreeBSD Handbook" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ Other FreeBSD documents, can be found at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs.html The Handbook contains a nice bibliography chapter, that will point you to even more reading material, if you find that you need it :) - Giorgos _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"