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  From: Phil Pittard <vk5ham@seol.net.au>
  To  : Benjamin Close <linux@senet.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 22:09:22 +1030

Re: Caldera Problems as a Newbie

Hi... for what its worth its just a tad difficult to chmod 755
/cdrom/filename :) ... and I think thats part of the problem... from
memory there was some wierdness with the install scripts for WP8 or Star
Office (maybe even both- its ages ago since i played with them) and you
needed to copy some of the stuff into a writable directory cos the
scripts wanted to write & couldnt do so on the CD!! 

The scripts may well have been fixed in the latest dist's in which case
just cd to the directory where the files are & then type ./install  (or
whatever the install script is called.) If that doesnt work copy it into
a hard drive partition.

Cya, Phil
------------------------
Benjamin Close wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Rick McQueen-Thomson wrote:
> 
> >       I am not used to this system or indeed to Linux, so if I offend local
> > mores, please forgive.
> 
> We have all had to learn how to use linux :)
> 
> >       I have a problem with Caldera OpenLinux ver 2.3.  I installed it
> > successfully enough on my machine.  As root user, I then tried to mount a
> > WordPerfect ver 8 disc, which was mounted OK.  I then tried to follow the
> > instructions which involved setting the directory to /mnt/cdrom and typing
> > ./install.wp and I got "permission denied" as superuser.  I tried the same
> > with StarOffice 5.1 (cd/mnt/linux/office51 type ./setup) and again got
> > "permission denied".
> >
> >       There is obviously something simple I am missing here, but I don't
> > understand what.  I have tried fairly extensive reading to no avail.  I
> > would be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction.
> 
> It sounds to me like the files do not have the executable permission set.
> Not even root can run a file if it's not executable. A little example...
> 
> I have a file called hello which outputs "hello world" now:
> 
> ls -l gives:
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root     root           17 Nov 18 21:07 hello
> 
> [root@Bytes4U /root]# ./hello
> bash: ./hello: Permission denied
> 
> [root@Bytes4U /root]# chmod u+x hello
> [root@Bytes4U /root]# ls -l hello
> -rwxrw-r--   1 root     root           17 Nov 18 21:07 hello
>    ^
>    |-- notice the difference
> 
> [root@Bytes4U /root]# ./hello
> hello world
> 
> So you can either set the execute permissions as above or type:
> sh ./filename
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> 
> * Benjamin Close
> * Benjsc@senet.com.au
> * Web Page: http://users.senet.com.au/~benjsc
> 
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