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Re: A question of permissions.

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From: Richard Tibbetts
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 00:00
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RussM <RussM@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <pudv1t0acfbsk1j3nvptjlkr9fd803kqom@4ax.com>, Richard Tibbetts
><richard@primepeace.ltd.uk> writes
>>I'm fairly embarrassed to ask this, but I can't see why I'm having the
>>following problem (and as it's the weekend I don't know who else to
>>ask!):
>>
>>$ who am i
>>cyborg     ttyp3        Nov 25 12:40
>>$ id
>>uid=200(cyborg) gid=100(cyborg)
>>groups=100(cyborg),50(group),102(cybdev)
>>$ pwd
>>/u3/cyborg45/bin
>>$ l runonline
>>-rwx--x--x   1 cyborg45 cyborg       211 Nov 24 09:34 runonline
>>$ type runonline
>>runonline is hashed (./runonline)
>>$ runonline
>>/bin/ksh: ./runonline: cannot open
>>$
>>
>>Why won't it run the script runonline? 
>>
>>Many thanks in advance!
>Can you cat it ?
>run file ./runonline to see what file type it thinks it is.
>
>One possibility is if you've transferred it from a Windoze/DOS box it has ^M on the
>end of each line. That tends to screw scripts up a treat.

No, it's fine if I run it from a different user.  I'm pretty sure the
problem is due to the lack of read permission.  I've been told that
SCO needs this to execute the script - I'll check this tomorrow.
-- 
Richard Tibbetts
http://www.primepeace.ltd.uk/
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