Why wont this script run??

[Søren Neigaard]

Ben Stringer wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 15:36 +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote:
> 
>>Somehow my /etc/init.d/httpd script broke (i did not alter it), and i 
>>dont know how to fix it, but i found out that simply running 
>>"/usr/sbin/httpd" starts apache, but apachectl does not. So my plan was 
>>to make a really simple script that runs "/usr/sbin/httpd" like the 
>>following:
>>
>>--- SCRIPT ---
>>#!/bin/bash
>>
>>start() {
>>         echo "Starting httpd"
>>         /usr/sbin/httpd
>>}
>>stop() {
>>         echo "Stopping httpd"
>>         killall -9 httpd
>>         rm -f /var/run/httpd.pid /var/lock/subsys/httpd
>>}
>>
>>restart() {
>>         stop
>>         start
>>}
>>
>>case "$1" in
>>         start)
>>                 start
>>                 ;;
>>         stop)
>>                 stop
>>                 ;;
>>         restart)
>>                 restart
>>                 ;;
>>         *)
>>                 echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
>>                 exit 1
>>esac
>>
>>exit $?
>>--- SCRIPT ---
>>
>>But it gives me this:
>>
>>: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
>>
>>Im no shell programmer, so i have no clue... Any ideas folks?
> 
> 
> Did you write the script on a windows system, then copy it over to a
> linux system (I noticed you are using a Windows email client)? This
> error can be due to problems with carriage return/line feed characters.
> 
> Your script syntax looks fine - this error will be due to the file
> format, permissions or the shell environment.
> 
> BTW - if you broke your apache startup script, just install/re-install
> apache to recover it. Easier than trying to reinvent the wheel :)
> 
> Cheers, Ben

Ok i ran a dos2unix on the file, and that fixed it (my path to bash was 
ok). However now it only kills apache when i do a restart, it does never 
print out "Starting httpd" when running a restart, although if i run 
start it works???

Ok i agree on reinstalling apache, but how can i do this, and will it 
owerwrite my httpd.conf?

Best regards
Søren