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Re: A question of permissions.

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From: Richard Tibbetts
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 00:00
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Robin <ng@rszemeti.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Richard Tibbetts wrote:
>> 
>> 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?
>
>wild guess, you are not the script owner, just a group member ... group
>has execute but not read permisions .. try chmod 755 ing it .. 
>(assuming that that is what ksh is trying to say here .. I am only
>familiar with bash) certainly with perl they wont run in execute only
>you need read as well ... depends whats in the script I guess

I did wonder about that - I'll give it a try!

>
>ps is this cyborg as in the cobolesque pyroll thing or something else?
>
>r.

Well spotted!   Were have you come across it? (It's my thang, as they
say, as you'll see from my web page;-))
-- 
Richard Tibbetts
http://www.primepeace.ltd.uk/
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