I am having trouble running a cron job, maybe you can see what is wrong
here.
I have created a folder in the public_html directory called stats
I have inserted a script called update.sh into the cgi-bin and ensured the
permissions are 755

Here is the update.sh file:
#!/bin/bash
cp tmp/webalizer/*.html tmp/webalizer/*.png
tmp/webalizer/webalizer.*public_html/stats

when i run the script I get this error:
/bin/sh: /home/corrobex/public_html/cgi-bin/update.sh: /bin/bash
: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Anyone have any clue I may have missed here? thanks

plato wrote:

> /bin/bash : bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Does '/bin/bash' exist?

Try /bin/sh.

> Here is the update.sh file:
> #!/bin/bash
> cp tmp/webalizer/*.html tmp/webalizer/*.png
> tmp/webalizer/webalizer.*public_html/stats

I ***ume the mangled wrapping is caused by your news client, and the
script is properly wrapped on your server.

Ditto 'tmp/webalizer/webalizer.*public_html/stats' should have some white
space after the asterisk.

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On 25 Jan, 10:52, "plato" <platoTAKETHIS...@telpacific.com.au> wrote:
> when i run the script I get this error:
> /bin/sh: /home/corrobex/public_html/cgi-bin/update.sh: /bin/bash
> : bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Try a more generic shebang of #!/bin/sh
Check the end of line character

On 2007-01-25, plato wrote:
> I am having trouble running a cron job, maybe you can see what is wrong
> here.
> I have created a folder in the public_html directory called stats
> I have inserted a script called update.sh into the cgi-bin and ensured the
> permissions are 755
>
> Here is the update.sh file:
> #!/bin/bash
> cp tmp/webalizer/*.html tmp/webalizer/*.png
> tmp/webalizer/webalizer.*public_html/stats

I presume that the last two lines should all be on the same line.

You are missing a space before the destination directory:

cp tmp/webalizer/*.html tmp/webalizer/*.png > tmp/webalizer/webalizer.* public_html/stats

> when i run the script I get this error:
> /bin/sh: /home/corrobex/public_html/cgi-bin/update.sh: /bin/bash
>: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

That usually means that you wrote the script on a Microsoft
platform and didn't convert the line endings when copying it to a
*nix machine.

Or, perhaps, your copy of bash is not in /bin.

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