Re: blind spot for java

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Graham Smith wrote:

>On Friday 26 August 2005 13:10, Kent West wrote:
>  
>
>>westk[@westk03]:/home/westk> ls -l /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin/java
>>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root staff 64492 Sep 15  2004 /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin/java
>>    
>>
>
>foo@bar:/usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin$ ll
>total 3160
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root staff  64492 2005-08-26 12:21 java
>
>foo@bar:/usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin$ ./java -version
>bash: ./java: No such file or directory
>
>foo is a member of group staff but the problem is the same if I try and run it 
>as root.
>
>Odd isn't it?
>  
>
Yes, it is.

Try performing some other action on the file, such as renaming it.

Also try it from a different shell (tcsh, etc).

-- 
Kent