[TriLUG] Vexing Command Line problem

[Ron Kelley via TriLUG]

I think python is a symlink to python2 which is a symlink to python2.7.

On July 31, 2018 3:04:11 PM Matt Flyer via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2018-07-31 at 14:51 -0400, Ron Kelley via TriLUG wrote:
>> Try changing the symlink for python to the full path. Or, call
>> python2 as
>> part of your script directly. I suspect the symlink to python is
>> causing
>> the problem.
>>
> I was thinking the same thing, but I noticed that his call to bnrun
> failed too and that looks like it is a physical file, not a link.
>
> One thing that this does remind me of is that, on some distributions at
> least, if you try to execute a root level file without root privileges
> is that even if it really does exist you still get the error No such
> file or directory.  For grins and giggles, I would try running one of
> these executables as root and see if it gets a different result.
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