I am trying to run the statistics software Stata 11 on Ubuntu 11.10. as a regular user and I get the following error message:bash: xstata: Permission deniedThe user priviledges seem ok to me as a linux newbie, tough:-rwxr-x--x 1 root root 16177752 2009-08-27 16:29 xstata*I would very much appreciate some advice on how to resolve this issue!
Permission denied when starting binary despite rwx priviledge
bash;permissions;executable
In the ls output you can see the file owner(root) and group(root). The user priviiledges apply to file owner (rwx), file group (r-x) and others (--x). Because you are not the root (and I suppose that you are not in the root group), only other (--x) applies to you. Thus you can run the file, but not read it. As a quick fix, try chmod +r xstata, this gives the read permission to all.