Re: Installation permissions

[Philipp Schulte <p.schulte@matrix.uni-duisburg.de>]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:30:13AM +0000, N Cohen wrote: 

> I have successfully installed debian v 2.2  on my powerpc  8600  in 
> the past and found that XF86Config worked fine when I used it to 
> configure the mouse. Now when I install XF86Config comes up with 
> permission denied when  I attempt to use it. What has changed I do 
> not know. If I use chmod 0755 or g+rx then XF86 will not execute but 
> simply shows up as an ordinary file. Please help and many thanks

XF86Config is the congif-file in /etc/X11 and is therefore not
executable.
Do you meant to use XF86Setup to configure X?
Phil