Odd problem

Karl F. Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 13:06:36 UTC 2010


Chris Jones wrote, On 02/18/2010 05:54 AM:
> 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
> 

	I have since learned that you run the file "thunderbird" to 
start Thunderbird 3.0.1. This works fine.

73 Karl


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