Why doesn't "/usr/bin/env python" work?

[sw2wolf]

>head cgi-bin/nav.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- 
import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
import cgi; escape = cgi.escape

When I visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/cgi-bin/nav.py, it reports:

env: python: No such file or directory

If I change its head to

#!/usr/local/bin/python

it works normally!
BTW,

#!/usr/bin/env python

works under linux.

Any suggestion is appreciated!

 

[oops]

Try checking PATH as env(1) manpage suggests.

 

[sw2wolf]

Try checking PATH as env(1) manpage suggests.

>echo $PATH
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/sw2wolf/bin

 

[SirDice]

You seem to be running this on some webserver. The webserver's PATH might be different from a 'regular' user's PATH.

 

[fluca1978]

BTW,

#!/usr/bin/env python

works under linux.

Any suggestion is appreciated!

Why not dumping the two env variables on FreeBSD and Linux and get the differences? However, as SirDice says your web server user is missing a part of the path to execute python.

 

[sw2wolf]

You seem to be running this on some webserver. The webserver's PATH might be different from a 'regular' user's PATH.

The web server is hunchentoot. I am using hunchentoot-cgi to call the python script. Now after adding

`("PATH" . ,(sb-unix::posix-getenv "PATH"))

to the environment passed to the script, it works great!

thanks!