Bradford Disolvable Agent help

[mattig89ch]

hello all, i'm just starting my first semester of college, and the university is doing something a little different. instead of asking us to register our mac addresses, they're making sure out pc's meet certain security standards but using something called the Bradford Disolvable security agent.

what this program does (or what its supposed to do) is scan your laptop/desktop/device, read that the requirements are met then uninstall itself.

Now, I installed all the programs it asked for, but then it said "permissions not found". so i figured it was an error and tried running it again, and the same thing popped up. I tried doing a search for permissions in the software manager, and nothing came up.

is permissions a new type of linux program? is it some type of, file that needs certain type of permissions?

it may help you all to know that i recently got a linux distro running, and all the details can be found here: [ubuntu] how to custom partition an install - Page 2 - Ubuntu Forums

[yancek]

What is the name of the file you are trying to run? If it has an .exe extension, it is a windows executable. To run it in Linux, you will need to install the wine program.

it said "permissions not found

What's the "it" you refer to?

is permissions a new type of linux program

No. All Linux directories and files have permissions. You can get the permissions on a file with the ls -l command. If you have a file name bradford.exe in your /home/user directory, go to that directory in a terminal and type: ls -l bradford.exe. To run an executable in Linux it needs to be set as executable.

I went to the Bradford site but there wasn't any useful information on using it with Linux. I expect it is windows and you may need to install wine to use it. Wine should be in the Ubuntu repositories. If you have Ubuntu 11.04, just use Synaptic package manager to find and install it.

[mattig89ch]

oh this is a .bin file. I used the...um...chmod command to run the file. as to the file name its "Bradford_Disolvable_Agent.bin".

[jayd512]

For .bin files, take a look at this page.
You should be able to get it going with those steps.

[yancek]

I used the...um...chmod command to run the file

The chmod command is used to change permissions. The link posted by jayd512 explains running a bin file. Make sure you are in the directory the file is in when you run it.

[mattig89ch]

oh wow, srry for the lack of responce. i'm in the directory when i run it, it runs through, then stops and says permissions not found

[jayd512]

What is the exact command that you are using?

[mattig89ch]

wow this is odd, i've only just gotten the email into my inbox telling me there's a reply.

./Bradford_Dissolvable_agent.bin

[jayd512]

Are you running this as root?
And have you already set the file to be executable?

[mattig89ch]

wasn't the above command the one that set it up to? and no, not running this as root.