Odd problem

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Thu Feb 18 12:54:23 UTC 2010


Karl F. Larsen 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.

That was a bad idea. I suggest you undo that change ...
> 
> 	When I now try to run that file I get:
> 
> karl at Lucid:~/Desktop/thunderbird/thunderbird$ ./run-mozilla.sh
> 
> run-mozilla.sh: Cannot execute .
> 
> 	I wonder if it is still a permission problem or something else.

  try

  > chmod +x ./run-mozilla.sh

first.

Chris




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