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Re: Debian Testing VMWare-Tools Bad Variable Name



On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 09:31:34 -0500
"Selim T. Erdogan" <selim@alumni.cs.utexas.edu> wrote:

> This is a long shot but for some reason I was reminded of
> having trouble with a non-debian script a few months ago, that 
> also asked to be run by /bin/sh (as your attachment did).
> 
> At the time, on my wheezy system (while it was still in testing), 
> /bin/sh pointed to dash, not bash, so the script didn't work 
> right.  I fixed it with "dpkg-reconfigure dash".
> 
> So you could check if the /bin/sh on the two systems points to
> the same shell with the same version.
> 
> Selim
> 
> 

Thanks for the reply, and suggestion.  If it had worked even a long
shot is useful.  Unfortunately, it didn't work.

I am, however, grateful for the suggestion.


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