Was the old system 9.1? From what's been posted here, SuSE changed the uid's from 9.0 to 9.1, and you probably need to run (as root) chown yourname.yourgroup to get ownsership back of the files. POSSIBLY chmod +x for those files too. -----Original Message----- From: Stewart Taylor [mailto:stewarta.taylor@btopenworld.com] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 4:11 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Can't run programs I've just re-installed 9.1 after the first ever self destruct of Linux I've had. My /home directory was on a separate partition so I re- used it. Since then I've not been able to run any executable binary file within my home directory. These all ran before on the old installation. Whenever I try to run them from the console I get the following message Permission denied. I've tried running logged in as a user and as root with the same effect. If I copy the programs directory to a location outside of /home then the program runs just as it should. I can't find any difference when I check against another system but that's running 8.0. Does any know if things changed on the move to 9.1 and if so how can I get these programs to run again. TIA Stewart -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com