Re: ask-2.5.0-1 and Python 2.3?

Hi Erez,

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:33:32PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote:
> Marco, here's another interesting point of info in addition to the python2.3
> issue.  The ask.py script is exec'ed with:
> #!/usr/bin/env python2.2

Yes. This was an old issue. I have fixed it a long time ago, but no
formal release followed the fix. :\

> This didn't work for me, even if the "python2.2" program was found in my
> path.  This was the case whether I installed the python-2.2 compatibility
> RPMs on my machine (in /usr/bin), or hand-built python-2.2.3 from sources
> and installed it in /usr/local/bin.  I had to change the exec to list the
> full path of python:
> 
> #!/usr/local/bin/python2.2

When you have a mismatch there, it shouldn't work at all, as env tries
to execute something that does not exist. 

> To be precise, the use of /usr/bin/env didn't work for me when python was
> exec'ed by sendmail from my .forward.  But it did work if hand-exec'ed
> ask.py.

You can remove "env" from there and execute Python directly.

Regards,
Paga

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