Morgan Wajda-Levie on Sun, 13 Feb 2000 18:38:20 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [PLUG] Cant run run_me.sh


On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 10:25:40PM -0500, Quincy wrote:
> Forgive me if the answer to this is totally obvious.....
> 
> I bought the O'Reilly book "Unix CD Bookshelf" which comes with a CD.
> To search the CD I need to have Java.  It told me to install a Java
> interpreter from the CD and then run "run_me.sh" I clicked on it in Xwin
> and got an error "could not execute program"  I debugged it with emacs
> and got and error saying something like" it's not an executable program"
> 
> When I try to search the CD using Netscape I get an error message,
> "...unable to locate the server localhost:6018".
> 
> I looked in my path and found "/usr/java/bin"
> 
> Anyway, I am probably missing something very obvious.
> 
> TIA

It may not be marked executable.  Try opening up a terminal and typing
'sh run_me.sh'.  If that does work, the file just wasn't marked as an
executable program.  To change that, all you need to do is run 'chmod
a+x <file>'.  If you only want the file to be executable by certain
groups, subsitute any of the following for 'a': 

'u' for user (the owner)
'g' for group (the group a file belongs to can be set using 'chrgrp
<group> <file>.  the group can also be a user)
'o' for others (everybody else)

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