On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote: > However if I call the script directly and want the #! line do its work I get > the following error. > > # /usr/local/bin/ldapwatch /opt/local/log/openldap.log | head > /usr/local/bin/ldapwatch: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `(' > /usr/local/bin/ldapwatch: line 3: `class vslice(object):'
That looks like bash trying to run Python code, so I'd look at something being wrong with the shebang processing. What's /opt/local/bin/python? Is it a symlink to something else? Some systems won't allow any such dereferencing, others (including modern Linux) allow a maximum of ten or thereabouts, counting one for every symlink or shebang'd script. If /opt/local/bin/python is a bouncer script that itself has a shebang, that might be your problem. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list