Shell Scropts

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Fri Apr 15 07:11:31 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 11:09 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> John, to execute a file, you need to give it the right permissions.

Correct

>  Do 
> this from the command prompt, 'chmod +x filename' minus the quotes from 
> within the directory the file is in.

Correct

>  You must be su'd in as root to do 
> this.

Incorrect. You only need to have ownership of the file, which he does if
he downloaded the file as his normal user.




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