Debian users, Please help us reproduce an elusive bash bug.
Bug#62154 reports that Bash gives a "Permission denied" error when it should complain "No such file or directory", but neither the Bash maintainer nor I can reproduce it. Please execute the following from the command line: ./thisdoesnotexist Assuming that you do not have a file by such a name, you should see the following error message: bash: ./thisdoesnotexist: No such file or directory If, however, you see this error message: bash: ./thisdoesnotexist: Permission denied (and thisdoesnotexist does not exist) then please run the these commands: ./thisdoesnotexist ls -ld . thisdoesnotexist echo $SHELL echo $BASH_VERSION pwd mount uname -srm and paste the results into a mail message to me. Thank you, Kirk Hilliard