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On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 10:25:40PM -0500, Quincy wrote: > Forgive me if the answer to this is totally obvious..... > > I bought the O'Reilly book "Unix CD Bookshelf" which comes with a CD. > To search the CD I need to have Java. It told me to install a Java > interpreter from the CD and then run "run_me.sh" I clicked on it in Xwin > and got an error "could not execute program" I debugged it with emacs > and got and error saying something like" it's not an executable program" > > When I try to search the CD using Netscape I get an error message, > "...unable to locate the server localhost:6018". > > I looked in my path and found "/usr/java/bin" > > Anyway, I am probably missing something very obvious. > > TIA It may not be marked executable. Try opening up a terminal and typing 'sh run_me.sh'. If that does work, the file just wasn't marked as an executable program. To change that, all you need to do is run 'chmod a+x <file>'. If you only want the file to be executable by certain groups, subsitute any of the following for 'a': 'u' for user (the owner) 'g' for group (the group a file belongs to can be set using 'chrgrp <group> <file>. the group can also be a user) 'o' for others (everybody else) -- Morgan Wajda-Levie PGP fingerprint: A353 C750 660E D8B6 5616 F4D8 7771 DD21 7BF6 221C http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev/public.asc for PGP key ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://plug.nothinbut.net Announcements - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug