"Permission Denied" error for root user when perms are 0775?

[R. G. Newbury]

From: Dave Feustel <dfeustel at mindspring.com>

 >Check the permissions of all the directories in the path leading to the
 >executable generating the 'permission denied' message.

Been there, done that. Thought of that very early on. The /bin directory 
  is 755 as usual, as is the executable. Everything in /bin is 755 
except for links which are all (always) 777.

Geoff