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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Good observation, I was creating it using winscp, now I nanoed it and the log file produced:<br>export HOME="/"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export LANG="en_US.utf8"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export LOGNAME="rancid"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export MAILTO="root"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export OLDPWD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export PWD="/"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export SHELL="/bin/bash"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export SHLVL="2"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export USER="rancid"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export _="/tmp/test2.sh"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASH=/bin/sh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASHOPTS=cmdhist:complete_fullquote:extquote:force_fignore:hostcomplete:interactive_comments:progcomp:promptvars:sourcepath<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASH_ALIASES=()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASH_ARGC=()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASH_ARGV=()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASH_CMDS=()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASH_LINENO=([0]="0")<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASH_SOURCE=([0]="/tmp/test2.sh")<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="4" [1]="3" [2]="48" [3]="1" [4]="release" [5]="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu")<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASH_VERSION='4.3.48(1)-release'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>DIRSTACK=()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>EUID=103<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>GROUPS=()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>HOME=/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>HOSTNAME=nagios<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>HOSTTYPE=x86_64<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>IFS=' <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>LANG=en_US.utf8<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>LOGNAME=rancid<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>MACHTYPE=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>MAILTO=root<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>OPTERR=1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>OPTIND=1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>OSTYPE=linux-gnu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>PIPESTATUS=([0]="0")<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>POSIXLY_CORRECT=y<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>PPID=22660<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>PS4='+ '<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>PWD=/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>SHELL=/bin/bash<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:hashall:interactive-comments:posix<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>SHLVL=2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>TERM=dumb<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>UID=103<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>USER=rancid<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>_=export<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=RU style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=RU style='color:windowtext'> Rancid-discuss [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alex DEKKER<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 3, 2017 5:53 PM<br><b>To:</b> rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [rancid] problem with rancid crontab<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 03/10/17 15:37, Vacheslav wrote:<span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Well it didn’t run because when I su rancid and execute:<br>/root $ /tmp/test.sh</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>bash: /tmp/test.sh: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>running: sh /tmp/test.sh</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>produces a log file with the following content:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>/root</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>How to fix the script?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><br>If there really is a ^M on the first line of the script then that suggests it was created with "DOS" line endings. What are you using to edit files? I can imagine that unexpected DOS line endings will cause the various components of RANCID to fail in unexpected ways.<br><br>alexd<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>