Date: 24 Nov 1999 13:39:15 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Permission denied" in emacs, v3.2 Message-ID: <86aeo4m84c.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: "Boyd Mills"'s message of "Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:05:32 -0500" References: <000001bf35d4$f464d150$ca5588cf@boydswdev.vci.org>
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"Boyd Mills" <BMills@VCIControls.ca> 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, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> "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
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