[plug] bad interpreter message in Bash

[Collin Baillie]

J Michael Gilks wrote:
> Just came across a new problem while trying to install Oracle on Mandrake 10.1
> When I attempt to run the installer I get the following message
> 
> [oracle at angua mike]$ /mnt/cdrom/runInstaller
> bash: /mnt/cdrom/runInstaller: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
> 
> The permissions are 

A friend of mine came across this while trying to install 9i on a slackware 
system. It turned out for him that the were DOS end of line chatacters (^M) on 
all the newlines... so it's actually looking for /bin/sh^M for the interpreter.

This may or may not be the case.

Collin Baillie