LeRoy D. Cressy on Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:08:43 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [PLUG] Cant run run_me.sh


The default behavior is to mount a CD with the noexec flag set.

try this:

mount -o remount,exec /cdrom

this will remount the CD allowing you to execute the runme command.


Have a good day

Morgan Wajda-Levie wrote:
> 
> 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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