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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -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 > > --
