Casey Watson » Tomcat http://casedogdesigns.com/wordpress Outdated Thoughts Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:08:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 bad interpreter: No such file or directory http://casedogdesigns.com/wordpress/bad-interpreter-no-such-file-or-directory/ http://casedogdesigns.com/wordpress/bad-interpreter-no-such-file-or-directory/#comments Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:56:42 +0000 Casey http://cd2/wordpress/?p=9 When my tomcat context suddenly wouldn’t start anymore I found myself scratching my head. I couldn’t figure out why the startup.sh script always threw the error

bash: ./catalina.sh: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

After investigating for a while I found that I had two seemingly identical files. One would run fine, the other threw a “bad interpreter” error.

Apparently if a shell script gets opened and saved in notepad it will not run anymore.

A simple “dos2unix catalina.sh” fixed the problem.

In Ubuntu the dos2unix binary can be found in the tofrodos package.

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