Re: bash: ./setiathome: Permission denied

[ronin2@bellatlantic.net]

I downloaded a new copy of the setiathome binary. The permissions are 555.
Why would adding write permission for the user (and removing execute
permissions for group and other) help?

I tried your other suggestion, with the following results:

  ronin@sirius:~/files/seti$ bash setiathome
  setiathome: setiathome: cannot execute binary file
  ronin@sirius:~/files/seti$ ll
  total 224
  -r--r--r--    1 ntrfug   users        6723 Dec 12  2000 README
  -r--r--r--    1 ntrfug   users        1811 Dec 12  2000
README.xsetiathome  -r-xr-xr-x    1 ntrfug   users      134072 Dec 12 
2000 setiathome  -r-xr-xr-x    1 ntrfug   users       72308 Dec 12  2000
xsetiathome  ronin@sirius:~/files/seti$

Kevin

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:57:48 -0400
Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> wrote:

> Might want to try either
> bash setiathome
> or
> chmod 744 setiathome
> ./setiathome
> 
> That has happened to me a few times...
> 
> Bijan