bash: ./a.out: Permission denied

[Chris Tyler]

On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 10:01 -0700, Brian Mury wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 09:50, shailesh <shailesh23jan at rediffmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > when i try to run compiled c program ("./a.out") get error
> > bash: ./a.out: Permission denied
> 
> chmod u+x a.out

If you *just* built this, then your umask may be wrong (too
restrictive). Try the default: umask 0002

-Chris