On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 11:13:14AM +0100, Jeremy Sanders wrote:
> Hi - We're getting random "bad interpreter" messages from cron. The job 
> itself runs every ten minutes from the the messages appear randomly, but 
> at least once daily.
> 
> # headers
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
> X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>
> 
> # message
> /bin/sh: /data/soft3/backup/monitor_3w_raid.py: /usr/bin/python: bad 
> interpreter: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> The script is executable and uses python:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> 
> # monitor 3ware raid status
> 
> This is the cron entry in root's crontab:
> 
> # run raid monitoring every ten minutes
> 0-59/10 * * * * /data/soft3/backup/monitor_3w_raid.py
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?

  The random part is a puzzle that I have no idea how to deal with.

  If the message showed every time the script runs I woul ask if is it
possible that this script was edited in a Window$ system.  Almost every
time that I saw that message a 'dos2unix' on the script solved the
problem.

  Other possibility, if the message was a constant,  is that the script is
being executed in jail, that is in a chrooted environment, and the
interpreter is not available there.


  Roxo

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