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Re: Permissions Problem



On Sunday 14 October 2012 11:06:31 am Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> I have a HD on my system, sdc1 which has root root ownership.  I created
> a directory, Apps, to which I gave computation computation ownership
> (user). I can create a file in the Apps directory without any problems
> as the user.
> 
> However, when I try to run an installer
> 
> ./install_ecce.6.4.rehl5-gcc4.1.2-m64.csh
> 
> get a Permission denied message.
> 
> i should not that the same installer runs in the users (computation)
> subdirectory.  The installer permission are set for an executable file,
> and cash has been installed on the system.
> 
> I know enough about permissions to know that I'm missing something, but
> I don't know what it might be.

You are trying to install a RedHat Enterprise Linux package on Debian. This 
can be a problem if the user numbers that Debian and Redhat either conflict or 
if RedHat makes different assumptions about user numbers than Debian does.  Can 
you get a Debian package for ecce?


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