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Old January 16th, 2006, 05:26 PM
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Hello every one

I have a strange behavior here on my OpenBSD 4.7 box..
I am logging in root (Don't kill me !! just for this exemple), and when I try to run:
$ /etc/netstart
Then I get a " Permission denied " error ?!!
Did it happened to some of you and do someone know why it hapened?

Thanxx to all of you for any help ..

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Old January 17th, 2006, 05:37 AM
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What do the permissions look like when you:
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ls -l /etc | grep netstart
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Old January 19th, 2006, 04:33 AM
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Yep I do not have the X attribute ... Why it has changed? I didn't touched anything....
and before I was just doing
# /etc/netstart
under root user
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That I can't answer.
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Old January 20th, 2006, 06:31 PM
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You've done something wrong ... don't use root unless necessary. As you can see here /etc/netstart is used with other parameters. What are you ultimately trying to do?
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if the file is in /etc then i assume its some type of config file (that's what goes in /etc along with some start up scripts), by specifying just the path at the command prompt you are telling the system that you would like to to execute it, and executable files need to have the execute permission set, config files on the other hand should never be executed (it just ends in errors) so they normally will not have it set hence the permission denied

if you are sure that this file should be executable then "chmod a+x /etc/netstat" will allow it
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Old January 26th, 2006, 02:07 PM
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If you bothered to check the link i had posted, you will see its a standard BSD script. See the FAQ entry in the link provided.
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Hi and thank you all for your help, It is really helping.
Effectivelly as Adman007 says the line "chmod a+x /etc/netstat" allowed it to work..

Now I am trying to understand why that happened and what could I have done wrong ..
Actually I am loging in as a normal user then use the SU command to get root access when needed for exemple when I want to vi pf.conf or run a pfctl , restart the network service (/etc/netstart), tcpdump ..
All those commad are not allowed under the normal user.. it sayes that the user is in the Wheel group and not allowed to it.
Tell me if you think I should change something on the way I am working ..
BTW No users other than I do login to this box.

Cheers everyone and thank you again for your help ..
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