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Existing file can not be found? [duplicate]

/usr/share/tipp10$ ll insgesamt 9408 drwxr-xr-x 3 myname ssl-cert 4096 Feb 26 20:07 ./ drwxr-xr-x 288 root root 12288 Feb 26 20:07 ../ -rwxrwxrwx 1 myname ssl-cert 9480 Okt 6 2010 ...
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Cannot execute binary file on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5

I want to execute phylocon on a mac OS X lion but after changing the path and making the file executable, I get the error 'cannot execute binary file'. But the steps that I took to running the command ...
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Make a programme executable by common users

I've installed hddtemp on my Arch Linux, but it needs to be run with root permissions. I want to execute it as a normal user without using sudo. How can I do this?
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Why do I have to use sh to execute scripts from CD/DVD media?

I hit again on this strange behaviour of the system. I'm running Debian 6.0.6 and had quite some troubles executing a script directly from CD/DVD. Finally I had to use: sh /media/cdrom/command to ...
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Linux isn't sure whether a file exists or not [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Getting “Not found” message when running a 32-bit binary on a 64-bit system ts3user@...:~/ts3$ dir CHANGELOG LICENSE doc ... ts3server.pid ts3server_linux_x86 ...
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Running setuid binary temporarily without setuid?

Currently setting up xpra, which wants to run an X instance as non-root using the dummy driver, but the system Xorg binary is SUID. Since the system auto-updates, I would prefer not making and ...
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Executing a script in zsh - file permissions

I'm confused about execute file permissions not behaving as I expect. Probably because my expectations are wrong. Anyway: I have a script file, for simplicity is just called s, located in ~/bin. For ...
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Why can't root execute when executable bits are not set?

root user can write to a file even if its write permissions are not set. root user can read a file even if its read permissions are not set. root user can cd into a directory even if its execute ...
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can't change file permission

Whenever I create or copy few shell files to usb storage device, then I am not able to make them executable. If I create test.sh, it's default file permission will be 644, but when I execute ...
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using Set uid to run a root command from non-root user

Consider the following two files. summarize's executable UID bit has been set, so that another user belonging to another group can execute the summarize executable that uses the customers.dat file. ...
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Can a script be executable but not readable?

Is it possible to execute a script if there is no permission to read it? In root mode, I made a script and I want the other user to execute this script but not read it. I did chmod to forbid read and ...
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Why can't I run programs on another partition in Linux?

So for convenience, I store all my data on my Windows partition so that I can access my data easily from both Linux and Windows. However, I tried compiling a C++ program with g++, and found out that I ...
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permission and user/group of a program executed through a script

I am curious, in the following scenario, what kind of permission does a shell script or Java program has (owner/group/other)? There is a script called run.sh, and it in turn calls a Java program ...
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How to search folder with only x set (execution) permission

I have read that if folder has only x set permission to execute it actually means that you are permitted to search this directory. So how to search it?
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“Permission denied” when starting binary despite “rwx” priviledge

I am trying to run the statistics software Stata 11 on Ubuntu 11.10. as a regular user and I get the following error message: bash: xstata: Permission denied The user priviledges seem ok to me as a ...
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Problem when installing “ia32-libs”

I'm using x64 Ubuntu. A few months ago I accidentally messed up the groups/owners of all files on /, but managed to fix it using a VirtualBox install of Ubuntu. Now I'm running into a problem that I ...
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FIle permission execute only

How can I set file to be executable only to other users but not readable/writable, the reason for this I'm executing something with my username but I don't want to give out the password. I tried : ...
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Weird executabe behaviour

I have a server machine with ubuntu 9.10. I am trying to put in place an executable, which turns out to be the latest flashplayer (debugger version). Somehow the file appears as present and ...
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How to block the execution of files owned by root through lighttpd?

I've created a group and a user to run lighttpd. I would like to run from the web server only files that have these permissions (myuser:mygroup). I don't want to run files with root permissions. Is ...
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No exec permissions on programs in /usr/local/bin

I have installed the newest Erlang from source. As the final step I have executed sudo make install Among other things, it placed erl link in /usr/local/bin, but its permissions are insufficient ...