Odd problem

[Steve Flynn]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>        In Thunderbird 3.0 tar ball there is a file called
> run.mozilla.sh and I tried to run it while it was a file owned
> by karl, the user and not root. Fixed that with chmod and now
> all files are owned by root with the group karl.

chmod changes the permission bits, not the owner or group (for those
you'd need chown and chgrp respectively).

All that is required for a file to be executable is for the execute
bit to be switched on (x in the flags section of an ls -al) for you,
group or others.

If I were you, I'd remove this entire TBird3 directory, re-unpack the
tarball and start again. You really don't want random shell scripts to
be owned by root unless you're absolutely certain what they do (and
that they don't do anything which could hose your system).



-- 
Steve
When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many
people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.

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