RE: bash: ./setiathome: Permission denied

["Jason Paulson" <jepaulson@baneng.com>]

Perhaps ./setiathome is a script,
using #!/bin/bash as its interpreter,
it is calling another (binary) executable,
that does not have execute permissions.

I don't have the latest version of setiathome,
so this is all speculation, but it would seem
to explain everything I have read in this 
thread so far.

J

-----Original Message-----
From: Bijan Soleymani [mailto:bijan@psq.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 9:11 AM
To: ronin2@bellatlantic.net
Cc: debian-laptop List
Subject: Re: bash: ./setiathome: Permission denied


The fact that bash gives "cannot execute binary file" 
suggests that "setiathome" is an executable and not a
script.

The default permission of 555 is ok, that is read +
execute for all users: 4 (read) + 1 (execute).

If you run it like ./setiathome
or 
/directory/where/program/is/setiathome

then there is something wrong with the program.

Bijan


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