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- From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Subject: Re: Permissionb
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.201230.20524@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
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- Sender: alan@nabeth (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Sep3.120002.1@vax.sonoma.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:12:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep3.120002.1@vax.sonoma.edu>, mccalld@vax.sonoma.edu writes:
- >
- > [ The customer is trying to create a file with:
-
- > '$ > filename'
- > resulting in the error message:
- >
- > :Permission denied ]
-
- I'm running ULTRIX V4.2 and my shell is csh(1). When
- I try the command I get:
-
- /usr/ucb/: Permission denied.
-
- This suggests that the shell has resolved the lone $ as
- a null string, fed that to it's path search algorithm
- and got came up with "/usr/ucb/", which it then tries
- to execute.รก Perhaps in your case "." is the first element
- of your search path (not wise) and so it tries to execute
- a null string.
-
- In both cases it is probably trying to execute the directory.
-
- What do you *think* it is supposed to do?
-
- >dmc
- >
- >
- --
- Alan Rollow alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
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