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I had dabbled around scripting and I stumbled with a screen recording script, but everytime I try to run it, my terminal fails to and shows me this error:

There was an error creating the child process
Failed to execute child process "/home/kenny/screencast.sh" (Permission denied)

Any way that I could fix this?

I did not create this script, I just found it in this blog, because all of the screen recording software I get from the Ubuntu Software Center fails to record a decent video.

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Did you make the script executable? sudo chmod +x /home/kenny/screencast.sh – trench Aug 31 '11 at 23:29
i did but now when i try to run it it opens the terminal and asks for my sudo pasword but then nothing happends and the terminal closes – blackstar Sep 1 '11 at 0:00
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I think you'll get this solved a lot quicker if we can see what you are trying to run. Can you link to the script/blog? (One thing of note: if the script involved multiple files you'd need to make them all executable.) – trench Sep 1 '11 at 0:11
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It's also worth noting that it's a bit dangerous making random scripts found on random blogs executable, but I'm hoping you are already aware of this. – trench Sep 1 '11 at 0:14
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ok heres the link on were i got the scrypt: ghettocottage.com/1027 – blackstar Sep 1 '11 at 19:35
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