On 01/04/2012 03:36 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Thanks for prompt reply. By this I am assuming that a > Makefile/makefile and its contents are not deemed a mandatory > executable as opposed to a *.sh? I am unclear as to what is happening > under the hood as I thought anything that "executes" needs to be "+x"? Makefile doesn't execute.... the "make" command executes. As I mentioned, Makefile is just input to make (a.k.a. /usr/bin/make). I don't know what you mean by *.sh since the concept of extensions doesn't exist under Linux. But you may also be interested to know that "shell" scripts (or files containing shell scripts) need not be executable. [egreshko@meimei bin]$ ll killfox -rwxrwxr-x. 1 egreshko egreshko 63 May 25 2011 killfox [egreshko@meimei bin]$ ./killfox firefox-bin: no process found plugin-container: no process found But also.... [egreshko@meimei bin]$ chmod -x killfox [egreshko@meimei bin]$ ll killfox -rw-rw-r--. 1 egreshko egreshko 63 May 25 2011 killfox [egreshko@meimei bin]$ sh ./killfox firefox-bin: no process found plugin-container: no process found -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -- Douglas Adams in "Mostly Harmless -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
