LeRoy D. Cressy on Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:08:43 -0500 (EST) |
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) > > -- > Morgan Wajda-Levie > PGP fingerprint: > A353 C750 660E D8B6 5616 F4D8 7771 DD21 7BF6 221C > http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev/public.asc for PGP key > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://plug.nothinbut.net > Announcements - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug -- 0 0 Linux Force, Inc. http://www.LinuxForce.net " Home Page: http://www.netaxs.com/~ldc/ _______ooO ~ Ooo_______________________________________________ LeRoy D. Cressy /\_/\ mailto:ldc@netaxs.com Computer Consulting ( o.o ) Phone (215) 535-4037 > ^ < Fax (215) 535-4285 ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://plug.nothinbut.net Announcements - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug
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