Am 10. Sep, 2002 schwätzte Clayton Stapleton so:

> On Monday 09 September 2002 12:31 pm, Matt Alexander wrote:
> > Can you post the contents of the script?  Do you need to pass anything to
> > it like "start"?
>
> Hi Matt
> I did not type in anything other that "#!/bin/bash/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall-2.4".

That one doesn't make sense.

"#!/bin/bash" as the first line of a shell script tells the shell to use
bash to execute the script with bash. There shouldn't be anything else on
that line. "/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall-2.4" is the path to the script.

Is the script executable? Give us the results of "ls -l
/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall-2.4". You should have an 'x' in the 4th place,
possibly in the 7th and 10th places as well.

Have you been using a root shell to start the service? Normally you
shouldn't use a root shell, but for starting and stopping services you
generally need to be root.

Matt is correct, you probably need to tell it to start.
"/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall-2.4 start".

> The same as when using the simpler firewall "#/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall-2.4".

Is there really a hash, "#", in front of that one?

> They both start with "#!/bin/sh". So why one says "bad interpretor" and
> the others works fine I do not know.

Because one is correct and the other isn't :).

'bad interpreter' means it couldn't find or use the requested shell to run
the script. A shell is really a 'shell interpreter'.

ciao,

der.hans
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