ummm, 766 should've been 755, or 700 pendant on your systems security
needs.


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On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Jonathan Furrer wrote:

> hmmm, the ls output you show doesn't show that the file is executable, you
> might wanna try that :-)
> 
> chmod 766 so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin
> and then
> 
> ./so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin
> 
> 
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> On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Rod Roark wrote:
> 
> > It's probably a .tar or .tar.gz.  The CD has a directory with a couple
> > hundred files in it (including a README) that you install from.
> > 
> > -- Rod
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Sunset Systems                           Preconfigured Linux Computers
> > http://www.sunsetsystems.com/                      and Custom Software
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > > Hello All:
> > > 
> > > I hope that my simple question will be forgiven on such a slow day :-)
> > > I downloaded SO5.2 as a single file for my RH 6.1 Linux box.
> > > 
> > > The file looks like this: so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin.  I'm used to tar
> > > and rpm files that are d/l but not this type.  According  to Sun's web
> > > site directions I'm supposed to run this in the c/l.  Well, I tried that
> > > and others and this is what I got:
> > > 
> > > [root@antioch StarOffice]# ll
> > > total 95436
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 root     root     97621364 Jul  3 09:55
> > > so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin
> > > [root@antioch StarOffice]# so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin
> > > bash: so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin: command not found
> > > [root@antioch StarOffice]# ./so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin
> > > bash: ./so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin: Permission denied
> > > 
> > > As you can see I'm running as root and in the dir of the file.
> > > 
> > > Where am I going wrong here?  A search of Sun's site didn't reveal much
> > > help at all.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Mike
> > 
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