How to run labx1.$LOGNAME from anywhere on the system?

[Wesley Jessup]

allscripts, which can be ran from anywhere on the system, is located in /home/cis90/bin.

The permissions for this directory prohibit cis90 and others from writing to it.
drwxr-x--- 2 rsimms cis90 4096 Nov 30 23:25 /home/cis90/bin

I tried.
/home/cis90/jessuwes/bin $ cp labx1.jessuwes /home/cis90/bin/labx1.$LOGNAME
cp: cannot create regular file `/home/cis90/bin/labx1.jessuwes': Permission denied

Thus, I don't think labx1.$LOGNAME will be able to be ran from anywhere on the system.

-Wes

[Rich Simms]

FYI ... insuring your file can be run from anywhere is different from being able to copy it to anywhere. Make sure your script has read and execute permissions for users other than yourself. Also make sure that any files in your home directory being displayed by your script have read permissions set.

Out of all the labx1 files submitted so far, only one had permission problems. I could run the script but then got permission errors as the script tried to read files in the students home directory.

In summary, for the Lab X1, you need to set the correct permissions on your script AND all the files in your home directory your script reads.

- Rich