Re: #! /bin/sh bash problem

2008-03-30 Thread Chet Ramey
John B. Brown wrote: From: jbb To: bug-bash@gnu.org Subject: gnu software configure error Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i586 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.2 -L/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.2/../readline-5.2

Re: #! /bin/sh bash problem

2008-03-30 Thread John B. Brown
Dear Bob, Thank you for that reminder of my mortality. Bob Proulx wrote: John B. Brown wrote: Description: Attempting to run 'configure', or any shell script with #! /bin/sh, results in the error message: bash: ./configure: /usr/bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied I

Re: #! /bin/sh bash problem

2008-03-30 Thread Chet Ramey
John B. Brown wrote: -rwsrwsr-x 1 root root 604040 2007-09-21 16:16 /bin/bash* A setuid/setgid root /bin/bash is a really bad idea. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL

Re: #! /bin/sh bash problem

2008-03-30 Thread Bob Proulx
John B. Brown wrote: Thank you for that reminder of my mortality. :-) Bob Proulx wrote: Also, /usr/bin/bash is not a normal location for bash. Normally bash would reside in /bin/bash . Perhaps you also have one there? ls -ld /bin/bash /usr/local/bin/bash I suggested looking at

Re: #! /bin/sh bash problem

2008-03-30 Thread John B. Brown
Dear Bob, Thank you for your answers. Bob Proulx wrote: John B. Brown wrote: Thank you for that reminder of my mortality. :-) Bob Proulx wrote: Also, /usr/bin/bash is not a normal location for bash. Normally bash would reside in /bin/bash . Perhaps you also have one

#! /bin/sh bash problem

2008-03-29 Thread John B. Brown
From: jbb To: bug-bash@gnu.org Subject: gnu software configure error Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i586 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.2 -L/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.2/../readline-5.2 Compilation CFLAGS:

Re: #! /bin/sh bash problem

2008-03-29 Thread Bob Proulx
John B. Brown wrote: Description: Attempting to run 'configure', or any shell script with #! /bin/sh, results in the error message: bash: ./configure: /usr/bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied I suspect that the permissions on /usr/bin/bash are preventing you from running