Re: newbie question about chmod

Well, you're running *chown*, which changes ownership--you should be
running 'chmod'.  Only root can run chown, so you need administrator
rights for chown, but not chmod.

Try

  chmod +x Desktop/dbeacon

instead.  (The '-R' recursive flag is unnecessary on regular files, you
just need it on directories).

If you *still* get "Operation not permitted", then it's possible that
somehow "dbeacon" is owned by a user other than yourself.  Then you will
need to run chown before running the chmod--but this time, prepend "sudo"
so that you can run it as root.  (The user must be an administrator on the
machine.)

Trey

In a message dated Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Marc Manthey writes:

> hello experts ,
>
> i like to run a little perl app , but it said always "Permission denied"
>
> marxg4:~ marxg4$ /Users/marxg4/Desktop/dbeacon -a marc@let -n let.de -b
> ff1e::1:f00d:beac
> -bash: /Users/marxg4/Desktop/dbeacon: Permission denied
>
> when i type:
>
> marxg4:~ marxg4$ chown -R marxg4 /Users/marxg4/Desktop/dbeacon
> chown: /Users/marxg4/Desktop/dbeacon: Operation not permitted
>
> "Operation not permitted"  ....what can i do ?
>
> The programm needs no administrator rights.
>
> regards
>
> and thank you in advance
>
> marc
>
>

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