Re: permission denied in root.

[Mitch Blevins <mitch_blevins@mindspring.com>]

Brent McMillan wrote:
> 	I can't even get "hello world" to run from that directory.  I
> suppose I could move everything to another directory and try it, but I'd
> like to know why root can't run it's programs from that directory.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Ben Collins wrote:
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> > On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Brent McMillan wrote:
> > 
> > > 	I'm trying to get the wordPerfect demo up and running, but when I
> > > try to run the setup executable (./Runme) I get a permission denied.  the
> > > file is executable, I own it, I own the directory, I tried as root and
> > > non-root alike.  The directory is not mounted on my main partition (if
> > > that has anything to do with it.  No executable files will run in this
> > > directory.  What's going on?
> > 
> > I'm not too familair with WP, but i seems that "Runme" is trying to exec
> > something that isn't +x. If Runme is a script then open it up and take a
> > look at what it is trying to exec and check that.

Is the directory NFS mounted?