Why does SunOS say it can't execute this KornShell script?

Question

I have a KornShell (ksh) script in Server A that will run a script in ServerB.

    #!/bin/ksh/
    ssh user@server "/path/script.sh"

The script permissions are as follow:

 -rwxrwxrwx   1 user    dba           75 Jun 11 10:00 script.sh

I checked the existence of 'ksh' in /bin and its there. (bash is not)

When I try to run the script I get ./script.sh: cannot execute

What could be happening? I tested the ssh command manually and it works.

Its a SunOS system.

It's not a Bash script if it has "ksh" in the shebang. Also, don't *ever* set permissions to 777. At the very least change it to 775. — Dennis Williamson, Jun 11 '12 at 14:30
Thanks for the recommendation... as you can tell Im starting with all this stuff now. — Rhyuk, Jun 11 '12 at 14:33

Levon · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-11T14:42:47.553

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Delete the trailing / in #!/bin/ksh/.. leaving it there causes an error for me too.

This is the message I get with the trailing slash under Linux (more descriptive than SunOS it appears):

ksh: ./so2.sh: cannot execute [Not a directory]

edited Jun 11 '12 at 14:42

answered Jun 11 '12 at 14:19

Levon

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