I am guessing this is probably more of a Unix/Solaris problem but I figured I'd see if anyone has had this problem. I am writing a Hash Dictionary ADT in C using the CC compiler. My code compiles fine but when I try to run it I get this error:
HashDictionaryTest: Permission Denied
Does anyone know what the problem is here, or is this a unix problem? Thanks for the help
you should run it in superuser mode.Either log in as root or use the "su" and enter the root password
I can't run in root mode because it is on a University machine and I don't have access to the root user. Thanks for the suggestion. Any other ideas?
You shouldn't have to do this ever and definetly not to run a small university application. Obviously, your program is trying to do something your user has no rights to do. Write to files inaccessable to him, corrupting memory that does not belong to your program etc. Try to find out what fails. Try using a debugger.Either log in as root or use the "su" and enter the root password
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Actually you'll probably find that the file has been created with the wrong permisions. The a.out output files are almost always created without executable permisions set as per your shell environments default permisions for file creation.
Try:
chmod 755 <filename>
This will set the permisions to:
-rwx r-x r-x
You can check this with ls -l command.
User: read write execute
Group: read execute
World: read execute
Thanks for the help. It looks like the permissions were only set to read and write.
Alright, changed the permissions so that I don't get the error about permission denied. I get a new error though, that follows:
Cannot execute binary file.
myspell: Exec format error
Any ideas?
What are you trying to execute? How are you trying to execute it?
I don't know how big your program is, but assuming it is a single c source file and you are not using make - then you may be doing something like this.
> cc myspell.c
> chmod 755 a.out
> ./a.out
Anyway, the error that you have recieved is telling you that the file that you have compiled is not a valid executable file under your current operating environment (OS and or hardware combo). It occurs when a request is made to execute a file that, although it has the appropriate permissions, does not start with a valid format.
Did you compile the program and try to run it on a another machine?
Or perhaps your uni is using NFS to mount the server partitions. NFS is a little slow in keeping files updated - the error is common when compiling on machine and executing on another, so once you have compiled your executable try using the sync command to ensure the files are updated.
> sync
