debian

=X¥®µ§= · 04-21-2003, 09:09 AM

How can I execute a custom command when debian is booting - without having to create an init.d script?

I have a python script that I would like to run everytime the system boots (with the command /usr/bin/python spitman.py since running it standalone gives this error:

bash: /sbin/spitman: "/usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: Permission denied")

my own init.d script failed because of this

any ideas??

abc249 · 04-22-2003, 07:18 PM

perhaps bash does not recognize the python scripting and thus will not excecute it. Can you run in bash?

=X¥®µ§= · 04-23-2003, 12:20 PM

what do you mean with 'can you run in bash'??

can I run python in bash? yes (>python)
can I run the script in bash with python? yes (>python spitman.py)
can I run the script standalone? no (>./spitman.py with #!/usr/bin/python on top of the script)

abc249 · 04-23-2003, 03:28 PM

then perhaps bash doesn't know to use python to interpret the file, you have to tell it to
I don't know anything else to say
sorry

=X¥®µ§= · 04-23-2003, 03:32 PM

putting #!/usr/bin/python on top of the file should take care of that...

Mork · 04-25-2003, 08:31 AM

Have you checked permissions on the script. Having insufficient permissions would cause an error like this (been there, done that).

=X¥®µ§= · 04-25-2003, 10:59 AM

[xirus@a1300 spitman]$ chmod 777 spitman.py
[xirus@a1300 spitman]$ ./spitman.py
bash: ./spitman.py: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: Permission denied

nope, it has nothing to do with permissions

Artimus · 04-28-2003, 11:26 AM

You really shouldn't chmod a startup script to 777. This means that anybody can modify this script.

If somebody gets in as a regular user, they could modify it to rm -rf / for example. Bad idea. Try chmod 770 thescripthere && chmod +x thescripthere.

=X¥®µ§= · 04-28-2003, 03:38 PM

I know, but it was only a test to see if it had something to do with permissions - it didn't

but I finally did found out what it was: bash can't handle scripts that are stored on a fat32 (any OS/distro can read/write this in a stable way so that's where my personal folder is stored...)

after I copied that script to an ext3 partition, I got an init.d script working!