[falko]

I think this is the problem:

cp /lib/libncurses.so.5 .//lib/libncurses.so.5

There's one slash too much.

Please change the script to

APPS="/bin/bash /bin/ls /bin/mkdir /bin/mv /bin/pwd /bin/rm /usr/bin/id /usr/bin/ssh /bin/ping"
for prog in $APPS;  do
        cp $prog ./$prog

        # obtain a list of related libraryes
        ldd $prog > /dev/null
        if [ "$?" = 0 ] ; then
                LIBS=`ldd $prog | awk '{ print $3 }'`
                for l in $LIBS; do
                        mkdir ./`dirname $l` > /dev/null 2>&1
                        cp $l .$l
                        echo "cp $l .$l"
                done
        fi
done