Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me with this problem.

First, I'm running Linux Red Hat 2.1 Enterprise on a Pentium 4, 2.5 ghz, 1gig of RAM using kernel 2.4.9

When booting up the server I receive an error message stating:

/etc/rc.d/rc: /etc/rc5.d/S20random:bad interpreter: Permission denied

Then it continues on with the boot up process and then another error comes up:

/etc/rc.d/rc: /etc/rc5.d/S56rawdevices: bad interpreter: Permission denied

Then conitues on again. The server does boot up but I cannot go into graphical mode. Not sure if that is because of the two errors above or because of another issue.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Zum.

Check the first line of the scripts that the symlinks (S20random and S56rawdevices) point to. If the magic line looks OK, check the permissions of the program it refers to.


Håkan

Other things to check.

A startup script like /etc/rc5.d/S20random probably is a symbolic link to /etc/init.d/random

A) check permissions of /etc/init.d/random
B) check the first line of /etc/init.d/random
It will be a script and the first line should start with the characters "#!", Most often it will be either #!/bin/sh or #!/bin/bash. If a different interpreter shell is used, is that shell installed.
C) how is the partition which contains the /etc directory mounted. If it is mounted with the noexec option (or an option that assumes the noexec option), then you will also get this error.

Thanks for the help. The permissions for some reason were wrong.