console not cooperating
 

I've just gone from RH8 to SuSE8.1

The console in suse gives an error "/bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied" when i "./configure"
i was in a directory containing configure files.

Also have a general question what problems should i be looking fore if I've never gotten a "make" type install to work. i remeber seeing something about setting envioronment variables. What if anything is this about?

thanks alot

if it works as root it's just a permissions problem.

it does not work as root.

see what you have here


ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 17 16:03 /bin/sh -> bash

ls -l /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 541096 Apr 12 2002 /bin/bash

scott@bigblack:~> ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2003-01-09 14:10 /bin/sh -> bash
scott@bigblack:~> ls -l /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 477132 2002-09-09 15:07 /bin/bash
scott@bigblack:~>

looks right huh?

I took a look at /bin/bash and /bin/sh in konqueror, and /bin/sh is just a link to /bin/bash . Do i remember a bash2 from RH8? can or should i install this in suse?

it seems like there must be something wrong with the configure script


try to execute a simple script
create a file that contains something like this


#!/bin/sh
echo Hello


then set it's permissions

chmod 755 filename

then try it

./filename