Re: [newbie] /bin/sh: bad interpreter
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:42:47 -0700 (GMT-07:00), Simon Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bad interpreter is the error bash gives when the script isn't executable. Do chmod +x LinxuxInstaller.bin and it'll probably be happy. (Anyone know why it does this strange thing?) Simon, It is strange, as if I go to the directory where LinxuxInstaller.bin is and I do sh ./LinuxInstaller.bin LinxuxInstaller.bin runs! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] /bin/sh: bad interpreter
The syntax that works for you (sh xyz) says start a shell, and have that shell read this file, and follow the instructions in it. To do that, you must have read permission for the file. By contrast ./xyz says execute this file and for that, you must have execute permission :) These two really are handled differently, in the first case, you'll get by without the #!/bin/bash at the first line of the file, in the second case, the kernel loads the file, then examines it to determine _how_ to execute it (parsing, as it does so, the #!/blah, which tells it that it has a script and what interpreter to invoke). What seems really odd to me is that every other shell I've ever used (including, I thought bash in the past/on other Unixen) say cannot execute if they find the file you name as $0 on a command line doesn't have execute permission for you. So, this error is really bizzare in my book. But whatever, once you know, you can handle it, right? Cheers, Simon -Original Message- From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 13, 2004 4:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] /bin/sh: bad interpreter On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:42:47 -0700 (GMT-07:00), Simon Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bad interpreter is the error bash gives when the script isn't executable. Do chmod +x LinxuxInstaller.bin and it'll probably be happy. (Anyone know why it does this strange thing?) Simon, It is strange, as if I go to the directory where LinxuxInstaller.bin is and I do sh ./LinuxInstaller.bin LinxuxInstaller.bin runs! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] /bin/sh: bad interpreter
Dear All I am trying to install a program using the following command inside a the script installMapleLinuxSU: sh ./LinuxInstaller.bin but I get the error: bash: ./installMapleLinuxSU: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] /bin/sh: bad interpreter
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 11:30:19AM +, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am trying to install a program using the following command inside a the script installMapleLinuxSU: sh ./LinuxInstaller.bin but I get the error: bash: ./installMapleLinuxSU: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied. Any ideas? Paul, You don't need both sh and ./ so try either sh LinuxInstaller.bin or ./LinuxInstaller.bin or even /full/path/to/LinuxInstaller.bin Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] /bin/sh: bad interpreter
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am trying to install a program using the following command inside a the script installMapleLinuxSU: sh ./LinuxInstaller.bin but I get the error: bash: ./installMapleLinuxSU: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. Check if LinuxInstaller.bin is a script, and if it is, look at the first line. It should be #!/something where something is the interpreter for running the script. One problem that is still fairly common is that the full path will be provided, but it will be the wrong one for your system. If it is /usr/local/bin, try changing it to /usr/bin and see if it works. Or you can run witch command where command is the interpreter without the path. This will return the path if the command can be found. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] /bin/sh: bad interpreter
Bad interpreter is the error bash gives when the script isn't executable. Do chmod +x LinxuxInstaller.bin and it'll probably be happy. (Anyone know why it does this strange thing?) Cheers, Simon -Original Message- From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 12, 2004 9:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] /bin/sh: bad interpreter On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 10:28:31 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install a program using the following command inside a the script installMapleLinuxSU: sh ./LinuxInstaller.bin but I get the error: bash: ./installMapleLinuxSU: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied. Check if LinuxInstaller.bin is a script, and if it is, look at the first line. It should be #!/something where something is the interpreter for running the script. One problem that is still fairly common is that the full path will be provided, but it will be the wrong one for your system. If it is /usr/local/bin, try changing it to /usr/bin and see if it works. Or you can run witch command where command is the interpreter without the path. This will return the path if the command can be found. Thanks, Mikkel and Todd. Meanwhile, by running LinuxInstaller.bin directly, I was able to install the software I wanted to install. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] bin
David Williams wrote: I have installed 10.0 on top of 9.1 Most everything seems to be OK except that I can't run whatever.bin files anymore. I take a really simple approach to stuff and I used konq for most stuff including this. It won't run from the comand line either. Is there some sort of file assoc that I have to force? If it won't run from the command line, it's probably not a file assocation problem. It looks like for some weird reason your file permissions have been reset. Type ls -l *.bin and see what you get -rwxr-xr-x 1 david david 249 Feb 20 2004 somescript.bin If you get something like -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 249 Feb 20 2004 somescript.bin (i.e. no xs in there), you need to type chmod +x *.bin which will make all .bin files in that directory executable. Also check that you still own the files and they haven't switched to being owned by root. Sorry if this is an overly simple explanation, but you did say you didn't use the command line much ;-) Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Bin files
I just noticed that this never made it to newbie because tsyko has a reply-to set, so I am forwarding it now for future reference. After i gave up trying to tell everyone about this, i realized that kmail sylpheed (at least) have a way to get around this. I set kmail to reply to list with my normal reply key. In sylpheed, i set it to reply to a specific address if you are in a specific folder. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] bin file
i downloaded the j2re-1_4_1_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin now how do i install it? Gil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] bin file
Run it as any other file. ./filename.bin. You may have to chmod +x the file though. After running this file, you will be left with an rpm file. rpm -Uvh filename as root will install it. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Gil Katz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 8:14 AM To: linux newbie Subject: [newbie] bin file i downloaded the j2re-1_4_1_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin now how do i install it? Gil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] .bin
I tried that for Limewire as Root and it told me I didn't have permission. Kelley - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] .bin It's like an .exe file in Winsux--just run it: ./whatever.bin Enter You may have to be root. Miark On Wednesday 23 October 2002 03:18 pm, andy wrote: How do you install .bin files? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] .bin
To execute files the should be executeable. To make them that it might be necessary to do chmod 666 filename. If you then do a ls -l filename you'll see the file permission to the far left something like rwxrwxrwx or maybe r-xr-xr-x søn, 2002-10-27 kl. 20:11 skrev J. Kelley Jernigan: I tried that for Limewire as Root and it told me I didn't have permission. Kelley - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] .bin It's like an .exe file in Winsux--just run it: ./whatever.bin Enter You may have to be root. Miark On Wednesday 23 October 2002 03:18 pm, andy wrote: How do you install .bin files? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] .bin
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 10:51 pm, you wrote: It's like an .exe file in Winsux--just run it: ./whatever.bin Enter You may have to be root. Miark On Wednesday 23 October 2002 03:18 pm, andy wrote: How do you install .bin files? For some .bin files I had to do something like : 1 - chmod 700 awesomeprogram.bin enter 2 - ./awesomeprogram.bin enter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] .bin
./filename.bin when you are in the directory of the file, otherwise type the full path of the file. The reason you must include ./ when running executables from the current directory is security. Imagine someone plants a harmfull executable called 'cp' in some directory. When you want to use the copy command, while in that directory, the executable in the current directory would take precedence. ./ makes sure you want to run the executable in the current directory and not a globaly set command. From: andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] .bin Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:18:23 -0500 How do you install .bin files? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Unlimited Internet access -- and 2 months free! Try MSN. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/2monthsfree.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] .bin
also, make sure you have the execute permission set for yourself for that file, since it most likely will not have that set by default when downloaded. since it's most likely an install script of some sort, chmod 700 (rwx--) if you want only yourself to do anything at all with it, otherwise, whatever modes are appropriate for your environment. --- Original Message --- From: Hesham Khonji [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] .bin ./filename.bin when you are in the directory of the file, otherwise type = the=20 full path of the file. The reason you must include ./ when running=20 executables from the current directory is security. Imagine someone plant= s a=20 harmfull executable called 'cp' in some directory. When you want to use t= he=20 copy command, while in that directory, the executable in the current=20 directory would take precedence. ./ makes sure you want to run the=20 executable in the current directory and not a globaly set command. From: andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] .bin Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:18:23 -0500 How do you install .bin files? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Unlimited Internet access -- and 2 months free!=A0 Try MSN.=20 http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/2monthsfree.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] .bin
Yea it seemed to work too when i typed in something like su ./file.bin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] /bin/login missing
Hey Everyone, Recently, I have been unable to telnet into my machine (Suse 7.2). This is because /bin/login is missing, (I am very suspious about this) So how do I go about replacing it? Thanks, Brandon Caudle -- 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux) Larkhaven Golf Course Charlotte, NC There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. -- Henry Kissinger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] .bin files
I just downloaded Star Office 5.2 and it came in one .bin file. How do I install, run, or decompress this? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] .bin files
- Original Message - From: "Pat McCauley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 9:11 AM Subject: [newbie] .bin files I just downloaded Star Office 5.2 and it came in one .bin file. How do I install, run, or decompress this? It is an automatic installation program. Just double click on the downloaded file and it will launch the installation program.( It takes it about 15-20sec to ever start.) Charles
