thank you very much - it worked :-0 :-) ---- Begin Original Message ---- From: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 13:36:03 -0500 (EST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bash: /usr/local/sbin/qmail: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >configured and installed my qmail as it is recomended in >"Life with qmail", but when I'm starting qmail: > ># /usr/local/sbin/qmail start > >bash reports: > >bash: /usr/local/sbin/qmail: No such file or directory >From http://www.faqts.com/knowledge-base/view.phtml/aid/1200/fid/223/lang/ Check the "magic number" (the first line of the script): head -1 /usr/local/sbin/qmail | od -c You should see: 0000000 # ! / b i n / s h \n 0000012 If you see something that ends with "\r \n", then the file is in DOS format, and you can fix it by doing: tr -d '\012' </usr/local/sbin/qmail >/tmp/foo cp /tmp/foo /usr/local/sbin/qmail -Dave ---- End Original Message ---- Stating the Obvious. All meta, all the time. <http://www.theobvious.com/> ___________________________________________________________ Get your own Web-Based E-mail Service at http://www.zzn.com