mothmanex | # 1 | 2010-03-12, 02:38 | Report

Hello people, I have been trying to run a script for some time, and so far I haven't been lucky. I have already investigated about this issue I'm having, and I only found the next things.

1.- Need to gain root (sudo gainroot, works on my n900).
2.- the scripts that I want to run as executables must not be on MyDocs, since it is a VFat Partition (done, moved my files to /Home/User/ and /Home/User/X/





Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong? (I'm new to linux, but I want to learn)

Ralph | # 2 | 2010-03-12, 03:01 | Report

You have an extra space between + and x.
Try chmod +x move-to-opt.sh

rm42 | # 3 | 2010-03-12, 03:07 | Report

There are several things you are doing wrong. Where to beguin?

- You shouldn't have a space between + and x.
- cd means "change directory. So, why are you trying to cd into x?
- Make sure the file is where you think it is first using the ls command.

- See this post for a mini command line tutorial:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...337#post535337

benh_n900 | # 4 | 2010-03-12, 03:25 | Report

It looks like the first attempt (the second line) in the last screenshot worked - if you type:

ls -l

you will see whether or not it is executable.

You should see something like:

To help with your learning, the permissions can be chunked as follows:

- rwx r-x r-x

I won't go into too much deal (a google search will tell you everything), but the first '-' means it's a normal file (d would be a directory), then the next three groups represent permissions.

Group 1 = user permissions
Group 2 = group permissions
Group 3 = public/world/anonymous permissions

the first letter is read permissions. r=yes, -=no
the second is write permissions. w=yes, -=no
the third is execute permissions. x=yes, -=no

so in this example, the user can read, write and execute.
other users in the same group as this user can read and execute
and any user can read and execute

(note: In practice, on the n900, multi user and groups aren't really used)

Hope that helps!

Ben

mothmanex | # 5 | 2010-03-12, 04:15 | Report

Thanks everyone. One last question, I have made everything from before, but when I use the command " ./move-to-opt.sh " the terminal returns the next message "/bin/sh: move-to-opt.sh: not found"

codeMonkey | # 6 | 2010-03-12, 06:10 | Report

Are you in the right directory?
You can do the ls -l command as above to see if move-to-opt.sh is in your current directory. If not you'll need to use cd to change directory first.

blwthompson | # 7 | 2010-03-12, 06:53 | Report

hey what is that program in the first screenshot?