Odd problem

Karl F. Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 12:38:12 UTC 2010


Christopher Chan wrote, On 02/17/2010 07:07 PM:
> On Wednesday, February 17, 2010 09:56 PM, 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.
>>
>> 	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.
> 
> Most probably. I thought you used UNIX machines a long time ago?
> 
> Maybe you need to revert your changes.
> 
	No. Someone needed to tell me that file is NEVER used. You 
start Thunderbird 3.0.1 by running the file "thunderbird" and 
this works.


73 Karl


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