sudo fails with ... /etc/sudoers: Permission denied for root but not for user

2003-10-12 Thread Harald Gutsche
Hi all, I have three machines which are updated from sid regulary and are on the same update level now (especially for the tests). All 3 machines use the same versions for all common installed packages. Especially for sudo base* etc. Two machines run fine but one has a weird problem: starting

Re: permission denied in root.

1998-10-19 Thread Brent McMillan
I can't even get hello world to run from that directory. I suppose I could move everything to another directory and try it, but I'd like to know why root can't run it's programs from that directory. On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Ben Collins wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun,

Re: permission denied in root.

1998-10-19 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I'm trying to get the wordPerfect demo up and running, but when I try to run the setup executable (./Runme) I get a permission denied. the file is executable, I own it, I own the directory, I tried as root and non-root alike. The directory is not mounted on my main partition (if

Re: permission denied in root.

1998-10-19 Thread john
Brent McMillan writes: I can't even get hello world to run from that directory. I suppose I could move everything to another directory and try it, but I'd like to know why root can't run it's programs from that directory. Do you have the partition mounted 'noexec'? -- John Hasler

Re: permission denied in root.

1998-10-19 Thread Brent McMillan
Yup, that was the problem. My /etc/fstab didn't specify to mount it 'noexec' but I guesse that's what happens when you leave out 'defaults' from the line. Problem solved. Thanks all for the help. Run the `mount' command and check if the disk the script is running on is mounted with the

Re: permission denied in root.

1998-10-19 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Brent McMillan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm trying to get the wordPerfect demo up and running, but when I try to run the setup executable (./Runme) I get a permission denied. the file is executable, I own it, I own the directory, I tried as root and non-root alike. The directory is

permission denied in root.

1998-10-18 Thread Brent McMillan
I'm trying to get the wordPerfect demo up and running, but when I try to run the setup executable (./Runme) I get a permission denied. the file is executable, I own it, I own the directory, I tried as root and non-root alike. The directory is not mounted on my main partition (if that has