Stoopid script failure

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Feb 6 15:44:10 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 09:25 -0600, inode0 wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Can anyone explain why this doesn't work? I've been writing shell
> > scripts on and off for several decades and I can't see what's going on
> > here. Is senility setting it?
> >
> > $ cat > tst
> > #!/bin/sh
> > echo foo
> > $ chmod +x tst
> > $ ls -l tst
> > -rwxrwxr-x 1 poc poc 19 2010-02-06 10:22 tst
> > $ type tst
> > tst is ./tst
> > $ tst
> > bash: ./tst: Permission denied
> >
> > (SElinux is off, if it matters).
> 
> Any chance the filesystem is mounted with noexec?

That's exactly it! Thanks, I was starting to worry about my sanity.

poc




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