What about force re-installing (replacing) bash & coreutils rpms?? Also, Try switching to runlevel 1 & re-run the script, if it works try replacing bash_profile, /etc/bashrc and (or) ~/.bashrc from the good system I hope this will help ----- Original Message ----- From: "dan1" <dan1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 11:48 AM Subject: Re: bash file direct execution > Hello all. > > To continue with the problem I am facing, I have some news.. > > When I delete the line #!/bin/sh then the script works perfectly. When I > put it again then the problem occurs again. > So the script just containing 'echo test' just works fine, but the script: > #!/bin/sh > echo test > > doesn't work (except when put in the /root directory) ... and this is true > for all other scripts. > > So the question is: does anybody know what program is in charge of parsing > that '#!/bin/sh' information, which apparently makes an error in the > parsing ? > Is there any linux guru that would know of it ? > > Thanks, > Daniel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > >