Thu, 15 Sep 2005, by art.fore@comcast.net:
I have Xilinx FPGA tools installed from the Xilinx CDROM. I can go to /usr/xilinx/bin and execute the isc binary with Konqueror fine. File permissions on the binary, and all of the files in the directory are rwxrwxrwxt with owner root. I create a link on the desktop to this binary and it will not execute and no message in the log files. The link shows the user as part of group root. changing the permissions to the same as the the file does nothing. Tried many combinations of the permissions in the link to no avail. Why is this happening and how can I create a desktop link to execute the program?
Is the isc binary an X app or is it maybe a script that requires a terminal for its output? In that case try the "run in terminal" option. Giving all these root-owned files o+w rights is not a good idea generally speaking, as local users could replace those files with trojans and then just wait for 'root' to run it/them. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.8 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply.