[ale] re: Permission Denied to run my own stuff

[Michael Hirsch]

Ben Phillips <pynk at cc.gatech.edu> writes:

> On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Stephen F Nicholas wrote:
> 
> >   What is the name of your file in question ?  test ?
> 
> a.out is the binary I compiled; and the script is called 't' -- it works
> fine on other machines!  All 't' does is 'ssh some.foreignhost.edu' -- I can
> run `cat t` (backquotes there) and it works fine.
> 
> It's a very weird problem.

Could your directory be in a partition that is mounted with the noexec
option?  Then you might have execute permissions but not be able to
run anything.  The symptoms above are consistent with this.

-- 
Michael