Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (96 mails)

[Jesse Marlin <jlm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Veronica Hernandez writes:
 > First, let me thank all of you for your input and interest in my problem.
 > 
 > I will look into our implementation of Apache and where it is expecting cgi.  I haven't even begun to troubleshoot the web interface issue yet as my script fails outright when it is called as a script from the command line. The more baffling question is why my script does not execute as a script from the command line in a shell session when it will execute if I do a copy and paste of each line of code.  
 > 
 > Regardeing permissions, the results do not change even when I give global permissions for everything (I know, unwise, but just did it to test)

 > 
 > Here is my code:
 > 
 > #!/bin/bash
 > counter=1
 > outfile=/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/veronica/test
 > if [ -s $outfile ] ;
 > then
 > read counter < $outfile
 > counter=$counter+1
 > fi
 > echo $counter >/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/veronica/test
 > echo done

Yep it works.

Is there any space before the #!/bin/bash line?  Or any whitespace on
the line at all.

Does /etc/shells have an entry for /bin/bash?

 > 
 > 
 > It is embarrassingly simple, I admit, but could it be the code itself?  I don't get any syntax errors when I run it line by line, but it sure does not work when I call it from the command line.
 > 
 > Thanks again.