bash: /usr/bin/emacs :permission denied

[Ken Brown]

On 1/16/2010 12:09 PM, mahesh p wrote:
> I tried to switch off autosave in emacs.So i added set set default
> autosave to 1 in emacs system file but it didn't work.So i deleted it
> from the file.
> Now when i try to run emacs from the cygwin console it says bash:
> /usr/bin/emacs :permission denied.
> I am not able to run emacs now.
> I am using emacs 23.

Please send questions to the mailing list, not to me personally.

I don't know what you mean by "emacs system file".  But my best guess is 
that you accidentally messed up the permissions on some file.  For 
starters, you could try 'ls -l /usr/bin/emacs*' and see if the 
permissions look right.  Or you could just rerun setup.exe and reinstall 
the emacs package.

Ken

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