Permission not granted to the root user

[Jeff Vian]

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 14:19 -0700, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > I have this problem with FC5 (I'm root !):
> > When I type some commandes like "./configure" I have this answer:
> >   "Not granted permissions"    (in french: Permission non accordées).
> > Do you understand this and what must I do to resolve this probem?
> > Thunks
> > 
> This is commonly caused by the execute bit not being set on the
> item you are running.  In this case  "./configure".  An "ls -l ./configure"
> should verify this.
> 
> You have 2 choices:
> 1.  chmod +x ./configure
>      Makes ./configure executable 
> 2.  bash ./configure
>      Tells bash to read this file and interpret it as a script.
> 
Or you may have problems with selinux not allowing execution.


> Bob Styma
>