Well, I think your problem is here:

print <<END;
 #! /bin/sh

 if test ! -d /export/home/ss/flowstats/config/$date
        then
 mkdir /export/home/ss/flowstats/config/$date
 fi
END
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Your shebang (#!) is going to be printed indented... it must be at the very beginning of the line, no whitespace. The heredoc prints literally what follows, including leading whitespace.

--isotope
http://www.skylab.org/~isotope/