Re: Permission denied

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:44 PM, Kees de Leeuw wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am very new to Octave. I have just installed it on Mac OS X 10.7.3. I think 
> I have followed all the installation instructions. I can run Octave from the 
> icon in my Application folder, but I cannot run it from the terminal. I 
> followed the instructions given in 
> http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_MacOS_X_Bundle. When I 
> enter 'Octave', I get a message '-bash: /usr/local/bin/octave: Permission 
> denied'. 
> 
> I would appreciate some help. I believe I need to have this working as I am 
> involved in software which is using Octave in the background.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Kees

This error may occur if the symbolic link you created doesn't point to an 
executable file.

What do the following return form the terminal ?

        ls -l /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave
        ls -l /usr/local/bin/octave

Ben