[NTLUG:Discuss] what is ":bad option"?

[Steve Baker]

m m wrote:
> 
> >From: Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net>
> >Can you send us the contents of the script file? (Assuming it's not
> >too long that is!)
> >
> here is the script: (I just copy from Qmail-HOWTO) and name it as 'svscan'
> and put it in /etc/rc.d/init.d/
> 
> #---------beginning of the script ---------------

Do you literally have this line ("#-------beginning ...") at the
start of your file?

If so, that's the problem.  This line:

      #!/bin/sh -e

...has to be *exactly* the first thing in the file. No blank
lines, no comments, not even a single space character may precede
that '#!'.

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