To add to my thing onthe terminal. YOU cannot brake anything.I wasin in a
linode shell for 3 straight days as root and I did not brake a thing.
Also the sudo command will let you be root for a short while for example
sudo shutdown -s now
or
sudo shutdown -h +240
Hope that helps.
> On Sep 7,
Can you do sudo champs instead?
> On Sep 7, 2014, at 23:22, Gordon Smith wrote:
>
> Hi Esther
>
> Excellently explained, as always. This is a cross-platform application which
> I’m trying to install. I can’t share any specifics at this point owing to an
> NDA. But the developers say you
Gordon -
Although these are fairly simple commands to be executed in the terminal, you
should also be able to make the same changes using the GUI.
Just use Command I to get info and possibly expand the disclosure triangle for
Sharing and Permissions if you feel more comfortable trying to do it
Hi Esther
Excellently explained, as always. This is a cross-platform application which
I’m trying to install. I can’t share any specifics at this point owing to an
NDA. But the developers say you need to be logged in as “Root” in order to
install it. Presumably, this relates to the permissi
I’m guessing that you’re advocating using the Terminal to do this. Possibly
that might work but I’m shamefully and woefully unfamiliar with Terminal stuff
and it kind of makes me a bit nervous. Thing is I really don’t want to make a
mistake here. I need it to be right.
Gordon
On 7 Sep 2014
Hello Gordon,
Shell scripts don't execute when invoked unless you have changed file
permissions on your system to allow them to execute. This is a security
precaution, because you don't, in general, want arbitrary scripts to run on
your system without your express permission, and by default th
I'm not 100 percent f,oar witht he shell but have you tried to doa make install
or somethign on the app? if not can you type
./
then run the app that way as long as you CD to the dir in which the app resides?
Hth somewaht.
On Sep 7, 2014, at 8:57 PM, Gordon Smith wrote:
> Hello everybody
>
Hello everybody
I have a problem to which I’m hoping somebody can give me a definitive
response. I have an application which I need to install on to a machine, but
the application in question was ported from LINUX and installs via a shell
script. When I open the script in the usual way, it is
