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Re: permission denied



On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Elaina Beth Tillinghast wrote:

: I've mounted the cd and can read off of it. Permissions for a
: particular file look like
: -rwxr-xr-x  901  root   size  Install
: Yet when I type ./Install from that directory as root, I get
: permission denied.  What gives? I have no idea where to look. 
: 
: ebt - have fun
: 

Most likely the CD is mounted with the "noexec" flag.  You may remount
the cd and omit the noexec flag, or if the file is a shell script (which
most "Install" programs tend to be) just use sh/bash/whatever to run it
("sh Install")

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