apologies, I'm pretty new to unix/linux and hadn't realised I needed to give myself execute permissions on the jmeter script. I'm in ok now -----Original Message----- From: Paul Foxton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 July 2001 12:19 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: permission denied or NoClassDefFoundError Hi list, please bear with me if I'm missing something obvious, I tried the list archives to no avail, and I've RTFM : ) I've just downloaded and untarred jmeter (RH Linux 7.1, Apache 3.19, JDK 1.3.1) I'm having problems starting it up: If I call the script from the command line: > ./jmeter jmeter.properties I get 'permission denied' If I try: > java -classpath $CLASSPATH:ApacheJmeter.jar org.apache.jmeter.Driver I get a NoClassDefFound error on the Driver class. the .jar and the startup script are in the same dir. can anyone help? thanks, Paul. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

