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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Permission Denied
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 05:24:52 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Craig T Manske) writes:
-
- >I untarred the Linux kernel sources for .99pl3 and when I ran 'Configure'
- >I get a "./Configure Permission Denied." When the file was orginally
- >untarred, it had a user number 184 associated with it (which I don't have),
- >so I changed it to root. But still only I have rw---------- permissions on
- >it, and can't seem to run the script.
- >
- > Any hints?
-
- >Albion
-
- 1) This could be better addressed in a news group that deals with shell
- programming (comp.unix.shell ??).
-
- 2) Chmod 755 Configure will fix it. In order for a shell script to run,
- execute permission must be set on the shell script.
-
- James
-