On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:21:37PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > trying to get VPN going, still, this time with pptpd--and the > config script seems kaflooey-- > > # apt-get install pptpd > <snip> > # pptpdconfig.pl > /usr/sbin/pptpdconfig.pl: Permission denied. > # ls -l /usr/sbin/pptpdconfig.pl > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1581 Feb 22 2000 /usr/sbin/pptpdconfig.pl > > <no chmod +x ?> > > # perl !$ > Can't exec "pptpdconfig.pl": Permission denied at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/IPC/Open3.pm line 188. > open2: exec of pptpdconfig.pl failed at > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 46 > Use of uninitialized value at > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 303. > > am i missing a piece? (i ran this as root, so it wouldn't appear to be > a normal user permissions snag...)
not even root can execute the non-executable. file a bug against the package, and run chmod 755 /usr/sbin/pptpdconfig.pl as root -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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