I think your perl installation is messed up. Here's a small demo what happens with script files that reference a missing interpreter.
First I show the shell I'm using but it's pretty much the same thing with bash. Then I show the location of the perl binary, create a small test script and give it the execute permissions. After that I try to run it. Notice the 'no such file or directory' error. rae:~: 19:37 >echo $SHELL /usr/bin/zsh rae:~: 19:37 >which perl /bin/perl /usr/bin/perl rae:~: 19:37 >cat > koe.pl #!/usr/local/bin/perl print "Success\n"; rae:~: 19:37 >chmod 755 koe.pl rae:~: 19:37 >./koe.pl zsh: no such file or directory: ./koe.pl zsh: exit 1 ./koe.pl If I replace #!/usr/local/bin/perl with #!/usr/bin/perl the script will run and print "Success". Both '/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup' and '/usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon' think that perl should be in /usr/bin. When I do 'dpkg --status perl' and 'dpkg --status perl-base' it prints out the corresponding lines: Package: perl Status: install ok installed [cut] Package: perl-base Status: purge ok not-installed [cut] The perl package also tells that it replaces both the 'io' and 'perl-base' packages when it's installed. I'm not sure what has caused your problem, but maybe installing the 'perl' package helps. Hope this keeps you from having to reinstall. Brian Skreeg wrote among other things: [cut] > dselect (subprocess): unable to run query/setup script process > `/usr/lib/methods/ftp/setup': no such file or directory [cut] > /etc/rc2.d/S10sysklogd: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or > directory. [cut] > When just sitting as root and trying to execute "start-stop-daemon" frmo > ANY directory the following error occurs. > > bash: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory. > > This is odd since it's finding the correct program and the path for it but > is saying it can't find it. Spook! I've looksed in /usr/sbin and > start-stop-daemon is definitly in there. > > Help much appreciated. I've went so long now (for a newbie) without > reinstalling that I don't really want to start over again. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland
