[Xastir] Permission Denied

[Curt Mills]

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Phillip & Kimberly Mackrael wrote:

> I then created a link to Xastir
> cd ~
> ln -s /usr/local/bin/xastir/ xastir
>
> I then get the following error in my bash window.
> $ xastir &
> [1] 2748
>
>  $ bash:  usr/local/bin/xastir/ xastir:  Permission denied

Yea.  You created a symbolic link (symlink) but have an extra slash
on the end, which signifies a directory.  You can't execute a
directory, so bash is giving you that error.  Try this instead:

    ln -s /usr/local/bin/xastir xastir

Or, a shorthand method of the same:

    ln -s /usr/local/bin/xastir

If you don't specify the final name for the symlink, it comes from
the last "word" of the path, so it'll still be called "xastir" in
this case.

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