Permission Issue With Shell Script and .Jar File

timmit · 06-02-2008, 03:49 AM

Hello,

Currently I've got the paros proxy files I need in the folder: /home/user/local-utils/paros.

If I am in that directory and type:
~ $ sh startsever.sh

The program will start up just fine. I want to be able to just start the thing from anywhere though. So I added this to my .bashrc

alias paros='sh /home/user/local-utils/paros/startserver.sh'

Now when I type 'paros' while I am in the paros directory, the program starts. But if I am in my home directory, I get:

Unable to access jarfile paros.jar

Here are the permissions for the paros folder:

Code:

-rw-r--r-- 1 user users   53248 2006-08-07 23:20 IeEmbed.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users  188416 2006-08-07 23:20 MozEmbed.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users     130 2006-08-07 23:20 autoupd.bat
drwxr-xr-x 2 user users    4096 2006-08-07 23:20 db/
drwxr-xr-x 2 user users    4096 2006-08-07 23:20 filter/
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users  122880 2006-08-07 23:20 jdic.dll
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users   21045 2006-08-07 23:20 libjdic.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users  469345 2006-08-07 23:20 libmozembed-linux-gtk1.2.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users  455336 2006-08-07 23:20 libmozembed-linux-gtk2.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users   19779 2006-08-07 23:20 libtray.so
drwxr-xr-x 2 user users    4096 2006-08-07 23:20 license/
drwxr-xr-x 2 user users    4096 2006-08-07 23:20 log/
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users    9431 2006-08-07 23:20 mozembed-linux-gtk1.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users    9467 2006-08-07 23:20 mozembed-linux-gtk2
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users 5751676 2006-08-07 23:20 paros.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users   13206 2006-08-07 23:20 paros_logo.ico
drwxr-xr-x 2 user users    4096 2006-08-07 23:20 plugin/
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users   11331 2006-08-07 23:20 release.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 user users    4096 2006-08-07 23:20 session/
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users      20 2006-08-07 23:20 startserver.bat
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users     171 2006-08-07 23:20 startserver.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users   57344 2006-08-07 23:20 tray.dll
drwxr-xr-x 2 user users    4096 2006-08-07 23:20 xml/

And here are the permissions for the local-utils folder:

Code:

drwx------ 5 user users 4096 2006-03-23 08:07 john-1.7.0.2/
drwxr-xr-x 9 user users 4096 2008-06-02 03:33 paros/

Note that I have a similar set up with John,and that alias works fine from anywhere. I tried making the shell script and the paros.jar file executable, but that did not work.

Thoughts?

unSpawn · 06-02-2008, 05:19 AM

alias paros='cd /home/user/local-utils/paros && ./startserver.sh' ?

timmit · 06-02-2008, 06:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unSpawn

alias paros='cd /home/user/local-utils/paros && ./startserver.sh' ?

Yeah,that job the job done. I figured a work around like that would work, but obviously there is something I do not understand about permissions. Basically I just want to understand that :-p. Thanks for the fix though :-).

merer · 06-02-2008, 07:33 AM

It's not a permission issue. Your original command ran startserver.sh script from your current directory. It probably used some relative paths, so it couldn't find whatever it was looking for in the current directory.