From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QFKUp-0002tG-7j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:14:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C1CB1C028; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:12:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from der-root.de (der-root.de [78.46.36.110]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A05B1C028 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:12:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [78.46.36.110] (der-root [78.46.36.110]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by der-root.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0D710220C206 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:12:35 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4DB90552.5060104@smash-net.org> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:12:34 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Norman_Rie=DF?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); de; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Scripts not working... HELP! References: <20110428054001.GA3033@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20110428054001.GA3033@waltdnes.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 293213471c578f9530ba451eef871a94 Had similar symptoms as my default system python was not defined properly. Use "eselect python list --python2" to see if that is the case. Set it with "eselect python set --python2 " if necessary. Regards Norman Am 04/28/11 07:40, schrieb Walter Dnes: > This message is coming from my 32-bit "hot backup" gentoo machine. > For some reason, any script that I call on my 64-bit machine immediately > returns to the command prompt. No warnings or error messages or > diagnostics. Builtins and compiled executables work OK. For instance, > if I have a script named "xyz" that goes like so... > > #!/bin/bash > man bash > > ..., executing "xyz" or "~/bin/xyz" results in bash immediately > returning to to the command prompt. If I type "man bash", it works OK. > On top of everything else, getmail seems to go into "forkbomb mode", > generating a gazillion processes, and eventually locking up the machine, > if I type in... > /usr/bin/getmail -v -v -v --rcfile rc_cotse > > It looks like the script is being totally ignored, e.g... > > waltdnes@i3 ~ $ emerge anyone home? > waltdnes@i3 ~ $ > > Any ideas what gives? >