On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Sa, den 20.12.2003 schrieb Gustavo Rahal um 22:24: > > Tom Mitchell wrote: > > >On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Gustavo Rahal wrote: > > >> > > >>When trying to run any bash script I get the following message: "bash: > > >>./xxxx: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied".. Even as root I > > >>get the same message... any idea? .... > > > > > >Someone has messed with the permissions of your bash binary > > >or you are not involing the bash you expect. ..... > > > $ chmod -x /tmp/bshell > > > $ /tmp/b2.sh > > > /bin/bash: /tmp/b1.sh: /tmp/bshell: bad interpreter: Permission denied Ok, so permissions of the interpreter can produce this message but that was not it in this case.... > > Thanks for the reply Mitchell. After trying some more things I found out > > that the problems is that if I run scripts that are on /mnt/dados/ which > > is a mounted fat32 partition this problem occurs. .... > Probably mounted with noexec option. Well I did mount a flash memory card with this line on /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash01 vfat noauto,user I see the same error so there are now two contexts to generate the same error message. Meta data on vfat is a strange thing -- perhaps there is a security check..... Anyhow I am not sure what the underlying reason is yet. But what you are seeing is 'real'. -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch48 -a*t- yahoo-dot-com