Hi,
I tried to run a ksh shell script, it is very short, but not working.

#!/bin/ksh
# writing style: [i]nteractive shellscript
# tested on platform environment: Sun/OS 5.7
# proccess name: vncserver
#
#start and stop vnc sessions.
printf "Starting VNC servers for: "

case "$1" in
'start')
/etc/init.d/vnc $1
;;

'stop')
echo Stopping vnc sessions
ps -ef|grep -v awk|awk '/Xvnc :/ {print $9}'|while read session
do
/usr/local/bin/vncserver -kill $session
done
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 [ start | stop ]"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0


when I run it, it returns something like...
user@user-desktop:~/Desktop$ ./S99vnc
bash: ./S99vnc: /bin/ksh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I copied this script online and tried to use it. I even comment out everyline and see what is the major problem, but I still cannot find any problem. Can someone give me a hint? I am using ubuntu vm.

ksh probably lives in /usr/bin/ksh. You can find out with the command:
If it is installed I suspect it will return "/usr/bin/ksh". If that is the case then edit the first line of the script to read
If "which ksh" returns nothing the you probably need to install it:
Cheers,

Evo2.

The control-M following your ksh command may be the cause of your problems. It looks like some sort of windows style CF/LF at the end of lines. I see from your user-agent icon that you are using windows so this could well be your problem.
ciao,
jdk

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I think my ksh is installed, because I tested with a simple script.
user@user-desktop:~/Desktop/aa$ more ok
#!/bin/ksh
#this is a comment!
echo Hello World
user@user-desktop:~/Desktop/aa$
user@user-desktop:~/Desktop/aa$ ./ok
Hello World


still very confused!

Not having ksh installed is not the problem - read jdkaye's post. If you have "fromdos" on your machine, you can fromdos < inscript > outscript, where "inscript" is the original script and "outscript" an output filename, for the script without the ^M characters.

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