Re: permission denied in root.

1998-10-19 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Brent McMillan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm trying to get the wordPerfect demo up and running, but when I > try to run the setup executable (./Runme) I get a permission denied. the > file is executable, I own it, I own the directory, I tried as root and > non-root alike. The directory is

Re: permission denied in root.

1998-10-19 Thread Brent McMillan
Yup, that was the problem. My /etc/fstab didn't specify to mount it 'noexec' but I guesse that's what happens when you leave out 'defaults' from the line. Problem solved. Thanks all for the help. > > Run the `mount' command and check if the disk the script is running on > is mounted with the `n

Re: permission denied in root.

1998-10-19 Thread john
Brent McMillan writes: > I can't even get "hello world" to run from that directory. I suppose I > could move everything to another directory and try it, but I'd like to > know why root can't run it's programs from that directory. Do you have the partition mounted 'noexec'? -- John Hasler

Re: permission denied in root.

1998-10-19 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I'm trying to get the wordPerfect demo up and running, but when I > try to run the setup executable (./Runme) I get a permission denied. the > file is executable, I own it, I own the directory, I tried as root and > non-root alike. The directory is not mounted on my main partition (if

Re: permission denied in root.

1998-10-19 Thread Mitch Blevins
Brent McMillan wrote: > I can't even get "hello world" to run from that directory. I > suppose I could move everything to another directory and try it, but I'd > like to know why root can't run it's programs from that directory. > > > On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Ben Collins wrote: > > > -BEG

Re: permission denied in root.

1998-10-19 Thread Brent McMillan
I can't even get "hello world" to run from that directory. I suppose I could move everything to another directory and try it, but I'd like to know why root can't run it's programs from that directory. On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Ben Collins wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On S