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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