permission denied for an application
 

Hello!

After getting my feet wet with the Linux system for the past few months, I finally installed my first application (outside of RPM's). To be exact, I installed Mozilla Sunbird.

This is on Fedora 6.

The path that Sunbird is on is /opt/sunbird. As a superuser, I can successfully execute Sunbird, but not as a regular user. This tells me that I have a permissions issue.

I'm looking at the attributes for /opt and /opt/sunbird directories. The root is the owner and groups have read and execute rights. Same with the sunbird script.

In comparison, I looked at /sbin and any of the executables within /sbin and find the same thing with those attributes, both scripts and directories. I can run any /sbin executable. IE: iptables, netstat, the whole mess.

What am I missing here??? :confused:

One question I just answered as I'm writing this is the superuser has to be in the /opt/sunbird directory, then ./sunbird. That brings up sunbird -- no problems. As a regular user, no sunbird.

What's up???

Thanks!

Tom D.

You have described the problem reasonably well, but as prose, not as poetry. Show us the data.

Please do the following.

As a non-root user (best would be the user you'd like to succeed running sunbird), run the program script. It will present you with a prompt. Then do these commands:

The output of program script will be in a file called typescript. Post the content of typescript to this thread in LQ. But put it between CODE markers, thus:

1. Click the Go Advanced button at the bottom of your editing window.
2. In the new editing window, highlight the content of file typescript with your mouse.
3. Click the # icon at the top of that new editing window.

Then let's see where we are.

Re: permission denied for an application
 

Hi!

I run both the script that you suggested in the following capture, and manual entry afterwards.

[tomd@tweety ~]$ ./typescript
: No such file or directory
: No such file or directory
: No such file or directory
/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/tomd/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
./typescript: line 5: /opt/sunbird: is a directory
[tomd@tweety ~]$

Here's the manual entry method.....just because I'm curious why my script produces different results.

[tomd@tweety ~]$ ls -ld /
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Jul 24 16:54 /
[tomd@tweety ~]$ ls -ld /opt
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 21 15:09 /opt
[tomd@tweety ~]$ ls -ld /opt/sunbird
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jul 21 16:43 /opt/sunbird
[tomd@tweety ~]$ ls -la /opt/sunbird
total 13164
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10492 Sep 30 2005 run-mozilla.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7680 Jun 14 06:07 sunbird
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9734488 Jun 14 06:14 sunbird-bin
# Partial listing shown here
[tomd@tweety ~]$ echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/tomd/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
[tomd@tweety ~]$ /opt/sunbird
bash: /opt/sunbird: is a directory
[tomd@tweety ~]$ /opt/sunbird/sunbird
[tomd@tweety ~]$ cd /opt/sunbird
[tomd@tweety sunbird]$ ./sunbird
[tomd@tweety sunbird]$

Executing either /opt/sunbird/sunbird or ./sunbird, I get the prompt back within two seconds. That's what is making me wonder what's up.

Thanks!

Tom D.

I was hoping it was a more generic question, one with which I could help you. It seems to be a question specific to sunbird.

All I can suggest is this. Sorry.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/

The way I was trying to approach the app installs was from a generic point. I have several applications that I'm trying to install. I picked out Sunbird as a generic example

I'll look at the link you suggested.

Thanks!

Tom D.

You have several applications you're trying to install, and each gives you a shell prompt after a few seconds?

HI, folks! Sorry for the long absence. Just a lot going on in the past few weeks.

Anyhow, I peeked at a familiar Sunbird page (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/) and not seeing anything that would help me. But then I can be "blind as a bat!" :)

Is there something on this page that I should try? Would it be worth an attempt to download the source files and compile/install?

Thanks again!

Tom D.

If you go to that page and click on the FAQs link, you'll find a list of places where you can discuss Sunbird issues.