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Old 12-03-2008
Why do I keep getting .:Permission denied?

I'll start off by saying that I know very little about Unix - however, I do know that I have a .profile file in my home directory, and that I should be able to invoke it by typing . profile. However, when I do this for ANY .filename, I get ".: Permission denied". I'm pretty sure that there is something seriously wrong with my account setup, although nobody in the office seems to be able to narrow it down. Also, I don't think that my .profile is getting invoked when I log in - there are aliases defined in there that I cannot invoke - all I ever get is "Command not found". I also get "Command not found" when I try to use unix commands that I know exist, like umount. Does anyone know what is wrong? And yes, the permissions on all of my files including .profile are rwx Smilie
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Old 12-03-2008
You probabally dont have permission to run umount. Or your paths are not setup.

What do you get when you run alias by itself?
# 3  
Old 12-03-2008
Here's something I just did to check:

alias csp="cd /data/Apps"

I got no error. When I typed csp after that, I got "Command not found"
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Old 12-03-2008
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Originally Posted by bbersani
I should be able to invoke it by typing . profile. However, when I do this for ANY .filename, I get ".: Permission denied".
That's not true. the command is:
. .profile

The filename is ".profile" and the leading "." is a command. It looks like your shell is not stubbling on the argument though. Rather it looks like your shell has trouble with the command called ".". So what shell are you using? That error message would be expected if you are using csh or tcsh. However .profile is not for use by csh or tcsh. They use .login instead. With them you would do:
source .login
but you really should switch to bash or ksh, they are better shells.

Edit:

about the aliases...this is yet another reason to dislike csh. You are defining unusable aliases that would have no effect even if you could invoke them. The csh syntax is:
alias csp "cd /data/apps"

The equal sign, while allowed, renders the alias useless. Get used to behavior like that if you stay with csh.
# 5  
Old 12-03-2008
we're using ksh, I believe. When I do . .profile, I still get the permission denied. In the .profile file, there is this line:

export ENV=$HOME/.kshrc # execute .kshrc for all new shells

there is a .kshrc file with some aliases in it. I don't know anything more about it, but maybe that will answer your question.
# 6  
Old 12-03-2008
On our HP-UX server if you was to run . .profile we also get permission denied. But on ours the .profie is not set as an executable file. Since you normally dont execute it your self.

AGAIN, when you type alias by itsself does it show you the aliases setup in the .profile?

It seems you have a PATh problem, which is no big deal. You can set that in your .profile and login again.
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Old 12-03-2008
No, alias by itself doesn't show me anything
 
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