The .sh scripts are Bash scripts, and need to be run using the Bash shell. The standard shell, shis not Bash, and it doesn’t recognise some Bash syntax.

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Note that the first line of the scripts is

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#!/bin/bash

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That line tells Linux what program to use to run the script (look up ‘shebang’ for more info), if you don’t tell it explicitly. But you are telling it explicitly, so it does what you ask and then sh complains.

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The correct way to run it is either:

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bash gatewaystart.sh

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or (more simply and generally):

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./ gatewaystart.sh

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The latter construct forces Linux to honour the shebang.

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I suspect that when you run it with Bash, the error message about execution permissions in the scripts subfolder will also vanish. If it doesn’t, you’ll need to check the permissions and discover what’s wrong. You need to learn this stuff if you’re going to use Linux, so all I’ll tell you is that you can see the permissions with this command:

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ls -l /opt/ibc/scripts

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And you can find out what they mean and how to set them right (though as you observe, the command you used should have set them right in the first place).

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Richard

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Ah yes, the common Linux distributions like Ubuntu (and possibly Mint as well) used to contain xterm ‘out-of -the-box’, so the User Guide doesn’t explicitly mention installing it.

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I’ve just added a note to the User Guide to correct this. In general installing things on Linux is very simple, and something all users need to know how to do, which is why I didn’t do this before.

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Richard

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