/usr/local/bin/p: line 79: /appl/fp/runmenu: Permission denied

[Bruce Easton]

I see that Ken Cole and Nancy addressed this.  Just one point - the 
commands to resolve (i.e., 'chmod 4755' or 'chmod +s') engage the 
'setuid' bit, not the 'sticky' bit.  Introduced in Unix back in the 
70's, both of these have often been confused with one another.

-- 
Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.


On 3/19/21 10:28 PM, Tony Freehauf via Filepro-list wrote:
> thanks for the help - oldtony
> 
> i do not know what to do with sticy bit ?
> 
> below are the current file permissions:
> 
> ls -l /usr/local/bin/p
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 19 21:23 /usr/local/bin/p -> /appl/fp/p
> ls -l /appl/fp/p
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 filepro filepro 1460 Mar 19 19:50 /appl/fp/p
> ls -l /appl
> total 140
> drwxrwxrwx  7 filepro filepro 4096 Jan 31  2019 addison
> drwxrwxrwx  2 filepro filepro 4096 Jan 31  2019 agf_tmp
> drwxrwxrwx  3 filepro filepro 4096 Jan 31  2019 alsip
> drwxrwxrwx  2 filepro filepro 4096 Jan 31  2019 AlsipMenu
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 filepro filepro    8 Oct 15  2019 ASCII_ENCODED
> drwxrwxrwx  3 filepro filepro 4096 Jan 31  2019 cbs
> drwxrwxrwx  2 filepro filepro 4096 Jan 31  2019 CBSMenu
> drwxrwxrwx  3 filepro filepro 4096 Jan 31  2019 cbsx
> drwxrwxrwx  3 filepro filepro 4096 Jan 31  2019 chateau
> drwxrwxrwx  4 filepro filepro 4096 Jan 31  2019 cut
> drwxrwxrwx  4 filepro filepro 4096 Jan 31  2019 cutnewold
> drwxrwxrwx  2 filepro filepro 4096 Jan 31  2019 download
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 filepro filepro   49 Oct 15  2019 ENCODED
> drwxrwxrwx 18 filepro filepro 4096 Nov 13 16:55 filepro
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 filepro filepro   18 Mar 19 19:59 fp -> /appl/fp_v5.0.14D4
> drwxrwxrwx  2 filepro filepro 4096 Feb 26  2019 fpmerge
> drwxrwxrwx  3 filepro filepro 4096 Jan 31  2019 fpORG
> drwxr-xr-x  8 filepro filepro 4096 Mar 19 20:57 fp_v5.0.14D4
> drwxrwxrwx  7 filepro filepro 4096 Feb 26  2019 fp_v5.0.14D4#
> drwxrwxrwx  8 filepro filepro 4096 Jan 31  2019 haley
> drwxrwxrwx  8 filepro filepro 4096 Jan 31  2019 haleyY
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 filepro filepro 5083 Oct 15  2019 index.doc
> drwxrwxrwx  4 filepro filepro 4096 Aug 17  2019 ppm
> drwxrwxrwx  4 filepro filepro 4096 Aug 12  2019 ppmcpy
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 filepro filepro 1236 Oct 15  2019 rbldindex
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 filepro filepro 5083 Oct 15  2019 report1
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 filepro filepro  511 Oct 15  2019 report2
> drwxrwxrwx  4 filepro filepro 4096 Jan 31  2019 Sarah
> drwxrwxrwx  2 filepro filepro 4096 Mar  8 15:46 tmp
> drwxrwxrwx  3 filepro filepro 4096 Jan 31  2019 union
> drwxrwxrwx  6 filepro filepro 4096 Feb  7 14:13 wolf
> drwxrwxrwx  3 filepro filepro 4096 Dec 30  2019 wolf2
> drwxrwxrwx  4 filepro filepro 4096 Feb 26  2019 ynot
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 filepro filepro   52 Jan 31  2019 ynot_docs
> 
> 
> On 3/19/21 9:12 PM, Ken Cole wrote:
>> then the perms issue must be at a higher level like at /appl
>>
>> What are the perms on runmenu and p and /appl ?
>>
>> Is the sticky bit set ?
>>
>> On Linux setting the sticky bit is different to say Sco Unix in case 
>> you didn't know that.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 at 13:03, Tony Freehauf <tony at ynotsoftware.com 
>> <mailto:tony at ynotsoftware.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     thanks for the reply - i tried /appl/fp/scripts/setperms multiple
>>     times. It runs but does not fix the issue -thanks - oldtony
>>
>>     On 3/19/21 8:40 PM, Ken Cole wrote:
>>>     Run setperms
>>>
>>>     On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 at 12:31, Tony Freehauf via Filepro-list
>>>     <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
>>>     <mailto:filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Hi experts - i have been trying filepro on different version
>>>         of Linux
>>>         and must of made a BIG mistake on my main server. now i get the
>>>         following error when i type in p and press ENTER.
>>>
>>>         ==>>  /usr/local/bin/p: line 79: /appl/fp/runmenu: Permission
>>>         denied
>>>
>>>         and line 79 in /usr/local/bin/p is ==>> exec $PFPROG/fp/runmenu
>>>         ${ProMenu} $args
>>>
>>>         what can i do?
>>>
>>>         thanks for any help
>>>
>>>         oldtony
>>>
>>>         --         tony at ynotsoftware.com <mailto:tony at ynotsoftware.com>
>>>         Tony Freehauf (Old Tony)
>>>         YNOT Software & PC Support
>>>         815.467.2179
>>>         YNOT sounds like "Why Not."
>>>         YNOT let us help you.
>>>
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>>     --     tony at ynotsoftware.com  <mailto:tony at ynotsoftware.com>
>>     Tony Freehauf (Old Tony)
>>     YNOT Software & PC Support
>>     815.467.2179
>>     YNOT sounds like "Why Not."
>>     YNOT let us help you.
>>