Came across this the other day on a new server I was building.

$ ./coldfusion-702-lin.bin Preparing to install... Extracting the JRE from the installer archive... Unpacking the JRE... Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment... Launching installer... ./coldfusion-702-lin.bin: line 2317: /tmp/install.dir.31481/Linux/resource/jre/bin/java: Permission denied ./coldfusion-702-lin.bin: line 2317: /tmp/install.dir.31481/Linux/resource/jre/bin/java: Success The workaround is set the IATEMPDIR variable mkdir /opt/IATEMPDIR export IATEMPDIR=/opt/IATEMPDIR

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