Re: Iptables not starting

From: John Crane (jcrane_at_crane.net)
Date: 09/28/05

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    Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:20:16 -0500

    Tommy Reynolds <TommyReynolds@yahoo.com> wrote in
    news:pan.2005.09.27.15.40.53.388580@yahoo.com:

    > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:22:40 -0500, John Crane wrote:
    >
    >> One more thing. I have a sample configuration script. I want to run
    >> it then save the config. I try ./rc.firewall to run it then I get the
    >> error: bad interpreter: No such file or directory I check the file
    >> and see that bash is installed and the top of the script has
    >> #!/bin/bash. Why doesn't this run?
    >
    > Make sure that the file is in UNIX format, with only an NL, aka LF,
    > character for the line endings. If the file is a DOS file, it will
    > have both CR and LF characters; this will cause the behavior you are
    > seeing.
    >
    > Check it, on Fedora 4 at least, like this:
    >
    > $ file foo
    > foo: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
    >
    > That is bad. Fix it like this:
    >
    > $ dos2unix foo
    > dos2unix: converting file foo to UNIX format ...
    >
    > $ file foo
    > foo: ASCII text
    >
    > Cheers!
    >
    >

    Hi Guys thanks for all your help. I found that it was actually because
    the script needed to be in unix format. I opened it in VI and set the
    format to unix and it works!
    Thanks for all your help,
    J

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