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User profile for user: rnaeye
rnaeye Author
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/usr/bin/...: Permission denied error at the terminal

When I type "instmodsh" at terminal, I get following error:
/usr/bin/instmodsh: Permission denied.
The same error happens when I type "perldoc anyModuleName":
/usr/bin/perldoc: Permission denied

This happened after I installed Perl Bundle::CPAN module. Can someone please help me to change permissions. Thank you very much.
~Erbay

Unix, Mac OS X (10.6.3), Unix

Posted on May 22, 2010 8:51 PM

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User profile for user: BobHarris
BobHarris
User level: Level 9
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Posted on May 23, 2010 8:26 AM

My system has the following permissions: 

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 4253 Sep 23 2007 /usr/bin/instmodsh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 224 Sep 23 2007 /usr/bin/perldoc

I wonder why your permissions are incorrect. Everything in /bin and /usr/bin should have the execute permission bit set.

You can set the execute bit using: 

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/instmodsh /usr/bin/perldoc
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User profile for user: BobHarris
BobHarris
User level: Level 9
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May 23, 2010 8:26 AM in response to rnaeye

My system has the following permissions: 

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 4253 Sep 23 2007 /usr/bin/instmodsh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 224 Sep 23 2007 /usr/bin/perldoc

I wonder why your permissions are incorrect. Everything in /bin and /usr/bin should have the execute permission bit set.

You can set the execute bit using: 

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/instmodsh /usr/bin/perldoc
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/usr/bin/...: Permission denied error at the terminal

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