> On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 20:15, Pozsar Balazs wrote:
>
> > This may well not be bug, rather an intended feature, but please enlighten
> > me why the following doesn't work:
> >
> > I have two scripts:
> > /home/pozsy/a:
> > #!/bin/sh
> > echo "Hello from a!"
> >
> > /home/pozsy/b:
> > #!/home/pozsy/a
> > echo "hello from b!"
> >
> >
> > Both of them has +x permissions.
> > But I cannot execute the /home/pozsy/b script:
> >
> > [pozsy:~]$ strace -f /home/pozsy/b
> > execve("/home/pozsy/b", ["/home/pozsy/b"], [/* 25 vars */]) = 0
> > strace: exec: Exec format error
> > [pozsy:~]$
> >
> >
> > Isn't this "indirection" allowed?
>
> hm... never chcked the code but I think /home/pozsy/a needs to be in
> /etc/shells
No, that has nothing to do with this.
> What are you trying to do, anyway?
See my other post.
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