Scheduled Downtime via Cron

[nagios at acmecargo.com]

When I open the file in vi I do not get the ^M. I only show that when I do 
a cat -A. So I took your advice and copied the text from a vi session to 
notepad, moved the old file, created a new file with vi and pasted the 
clear text into the new file. chmod 755 and wala! Now I'm making sure the 
syntax is correct before I schedule my cron. Thank you Phil!

Dylan

At 05:13 AM 1/7/2004, you wrote:
> > From: nagios at acmecargo.com [mailto:nagios at acmecargo.com]
> > At 05:01 PM 1/6/2004, you wrote:
> > >On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 06:13:41PM -0500, nagios at acmecargo.com wrote:
> > > > [root at host]#
> > /usr/local/nagios/libexec/schedule_host_downtime host
> > > > "`date --iso-8601` 05:00:00" "`date --iso-8601` 06:00:00" 1 3600
> > > > cron "scheduled maintenance"
> > > > : bad interpreter: No such file or directoryst_downtime: /bin/sh
> > >
> > >Maybe you should check both, the script and your crontab with cat -A
> > >for dubious whitespaces.
> >
> > None that I can see in the script. I simply did a wget from
> > the web page
> > it's hosted on so it should be in it's original format.
>
>Failing to find the interpreter is a classic symptom of trying to run a
>shell script in DOS file format. If you open the script using vi and
>every line ends ^M, that's the problem.
>
>Phil




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