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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: GDB "Can't exec" Problem
Message-ID: <1991Apr01.100503.28260@kithrup.COM>
Date: 1 Apr 91 10:05:03 GMT
References: <3440016@hparc0.HP.COM>
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
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In article <3440016@hparc0.HP.COM> linas@hparc0.HP.COM (Linas Petras) writes:
>I am trying to run GDB-3.5 on SCO unix 3.2.2 and ever time I try and run a
>test program ("hello world" type) I get an error message back from GDB 
>saying that permission is denied to exec /bin/sh.  

The solution is to have a readable copy of the shell somewhere around.  I
copied /bin/sh to /usr/local/lib/gsh, and told gdb to use that instead of
/bin/sh.  gdb works just fine now.

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