From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 24 11:33:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E385B1539F for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 11:33:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from localhost.hell.gr (patr530-a016.otenet.gr [195.167.115.16]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA00387 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 21:32:06 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 2256 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Nov 1999 11:39:15 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Permission denied" in emacs, v3.2 References: <000001bf35d4$f464d150$ca5588cf@boydswdev.vci.org> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 24 Nov 1999 13:39:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Boyd Mills"'s message of "Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:05:32 -0500" Message-ID: <86aeo4m84c.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Boyd Mills" writes: > myname# emacs > /bin/emacs: Permission denied. > myname# cd /bin > myname# ls Ahem, as far as I know emacs is not supposed to be in the /bin tree. What you're looking at is probably a shell script, which [guessing] does not have the execute-bit set in it's permissions? If that is not the case, an "ls -l /bin" script, along with some of that "file /bin/emacs" output would certainly prove of enormous use in sorting this out :) -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message