My system has been getting a some health errors, so I decided to replace a disk.

 

But when I run preclear it says it can't find bash, when I run preclear with the path for bash specified, I get unknown command on line 65, 66, etc. So I assume my paths are screwed up for some reason. What should I check?

 

 

My system has been getting a some health errors, so I decided to replace a disk.

 

But when I run preclear it says it can't find bash, when I run preclear with the path for bash specified, I get unknown command on line 65, 66, etc. So I assume my paths are screwed up for some reason. What should I check?

All your add-ins and plug-ins.  One of them messed with the $PATH variable.

 

If you cannot find the bash shell, lots of things will not work.

 

On my 4.7 server, it is:

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:./:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin

 

On my 5.0rc8a server it is:

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:./:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin

 

In my personal opinion, both are HORRIBLE from a security standpoint.  /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, and /sbin and everything else should ALWAYS be before the current directory.  It should be dead last.

 

bash is in /usr/bin/bash and it is linked to /bin/bash

 

Joe L.

Thanks I'm still on 4.7, haven't been on the machine for tooo long.

 

PATH looks like /usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:./:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin

 

I also found bash in /usr/bin

 

 

Error from the script looks like:

 

ver="1.13"

+ ver=$'1.13\r'

 

+ $'\r'

: command not foundine 65:

progname=$0

+ progname=$'preclear_disk.sh\r'

options=$*

' options='-A /dev/sdd

 

+ $'\r'

: command not foundine 68:

usage() {

'reclear_disk.sh: line 69: syntax error near unexpected token `{

'reclear_disk.sh: line 69: `usage() {

 

 

Thanks.

 

 

On my 4.7 server, it is:

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:./:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin

In my personal opinion, both are HORRIBLE from a security standpoint.  /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, and /sbin and everything else should ALWAYS be before the current directory.  It should be dead last.

 

bash is in /usr/bin/bash and it is linked to /bin/bash

 

Joe L.

Something funky happened when copying the file from Windows 7. Copied it again and it's clearing now.

 

Thanks again.