Re: Path puzzle

On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 08:27:21PM +0200, Michael Stiller wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> 
> i guess the interpreter which should be in the first line after #! is not found.
> 
> Please show the first few lines of the script using "head server_try"

bob@pelorus:~ % head server_try
#!/usr/bin/python3.11
#+
# Example use of Python’s ssl module: server-side.
# The code is written to avoid blocking on actual socket I/O, to make
# it easier to adapt to asynchronous usage.
#
# See the README for details on how to set things up to run this script.
#
# Copyright 2022-2024 by Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.nz>. This
# script is licensed CC0 <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>;

For completeness:
bob@pelorus:~ % echo $PATH
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/home/bob/bin:.
bob@pelorus:~ %  

Thanks for writing,

bob prohaska

> 
> > On 5. Sep 2024, at 20:24, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:
> > 
> > I've got a stable/14.1 system which declines to find programs
> > in the current working directory:
> > 
> > bob@pelorus:~ % ls
> > auth client_try public_html server_try ssl
> > bob@pelorus:~ % 
> > bob@pelorus:~ % ls -l server_try
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 bob bob 8542 Sep  3 14:08 server_try
> > bob@pelorus:~ % ./server_try
> > ./server_try: Command not found.
> > 
> > I've tried adding . to my path, but that doesn't seem to help.
> > 
> > Server_try is a python script, if it's run using:
> > 
> > bob@pelorus:~ % python3.11 server_try
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "/usr/home/bob/server_try", line 51, in <module>
> >    raise getopt.GetoptError("usage: %s «ca-cert-file» «server-cert-file» «server-key-file»" % sys.argv[0])
> > getopt.GetoptError: usage: server_try «ca-cert-file» «server-cert-file» «server-key-file»
> > 
> > it fails for (I think) unrelated reasons. The script works as expected
> > on Debian Bookworm.
> > 
> > I've tried starting csh and sh, the behavior is unchanged. Running
> > rehash likewise has no effect.
> > 
> > This is a fairly new installation with home directories under /usr but
> > with the original empty /home directory still in place.
> > 
> > I must be doing something dumb, but am unable to recognize it.
> > Any suggestions appreciated!
> > 
> > thanks for reading,
> > 
> > bob prohaska
> > 
> > 
> 
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