[lug] Permission denied attempting to run setiathome

[Franklin Bowen]

You are missing something I didn't explicitly state.  :-)  I am trying to run 
the linux version of seti at home in the same directory where my windows version 
is located so that it uses the same data files.  Sorry I left that out!


On Wednesday 11 September 2002 10:28, you wrote:
> Am I missing something here? It looks like you're trying to run the windows
> version of seti at home under linux.
>
> You'd be much farther ahead getting a unix client and then just use the
> same login info that you used for your windows client so all the credit
> goes to the same place.
>
> If I've misunderstood what you're trying to do, ask again :)
>
> On Wed 11 September 2002 10:19, Franklin Bowen wrote:
> > Unix oldie but Linux newbie and I'm obviously missing something.
> >
> > I think it's a vfat issue because I moved the executable to /root, chmod
> > u+x and it runs.  But I can't chmod +x the executable on the vfat
> > partition (I assume due to vfat limitations).  I can write to this
> > directory because I extracted setiathome from the .tar file.
> >
> > Help!  I want to get my CPU cycles doing something useful while I learn
> > about and configure everything.  Thanks!