Quote Originally Posted by acolyte_to_jippity View Post
i have no fucking clue what's going on with it. according to the accounts support people, they're not getting this thing either. and i'm not on ubuntu. it's a remote unix machine...but that shouldn't make a difference.
"remote unix machine" really isn't specific enough. What flavor of Unix, Linux, or BSD is it running? What version of bash is it running (try bash --version).

You can use uname -a to find out what kernel it's running, and if it has lsb_release, you can try that too (lsb_release -a).