From: mkcon@... (Martin Kahlert) Date: 2003-01-09T16:36:24+09:00 Subject: Re: bad interpreter In article <20030105144216.GA2879@gull.zena.it>, Arnaudo Massimo writes: > Hi everibody, > i would start a test.rb file. I can if a type: > > masarn1@gull:~$ ruby test.rb > hello, World il mio nome � Massimo > > but if i type: > masarn1@gull:~$ ./test.rb > bash: ./test.rb: /usr/local/bin/ruby: bad interpreter: Permission denied I always found the solution of these kind of problems by 'strace ./test.rb 2> output' and looking at output. Hope that helps, Martin.