Odd Perl interpreter problem

Glenn Burkhardt gbburkhardt at aaahawk.com
Sun Dec 30 12:38:14 EST 2001


> I am having an odd Perl problem on Slack 8.0 box.
> I
> I have #!/usr/bin/perl as interpreter line in scripts.
> I get "bad interpreter: no such file or directory" messages when trying to 
> run the script.
> which perl gives /usr/bin/perl
> I can run the script "manually" -- e.g. by entering /usr/bin/perl scriptname
> File permissions are fine

Sorry to be pedantic, but could you please post your script as an attachment, 
and also post the results from "ls -l /usr/bin/perl".

Thanks.



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