sudo guru needed

[Joel Goguen]

Try this:

# sudo sh /media/cdrom0/installUnix

On 10/2/06, Albert Wagner <albertwagner at cox.net> wrote:
> I have downloaded and burned a cd from Cincom that is an installation
> disk for Smalltalk. In the root directory of the cd (/media/cdrom0/)
> there exists a shell (sh) file named installUnix which must be run. It
> is owned by root and in group root with permissions -r-xr-xr-x.  In a
> terminal I get:
>
> # /media/cdrom0
> # ./installUnix
> bash: ./installUnix: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
> # /media/cdrom0
> # sudo ./installUnix
> sudo: unable to execute ./installUnix: Permission denied
>
> I get the same in a terminal invoked so:
>
> # sudo gnome-terminal
> Password:
> # /media/cdrom0
> # ./installUnix
> bash: ./installUnix: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
> # /media/cdrom0
> # whoami
> root
>
> Do I have to activate root with a password in order to run this shell?
>
>
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Joel Goguen
Bachelor of Computer Science III
University of New Brunswick
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