[ale] debian won't run scripts from cd

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Thu Aug 19 17:55:13 EDT 2010


On 08/19/2010 05:36 PM, Tim Watts wrote:
> I'm trying to run a script on a cd and Debian Lenny refuses to run it
> with a 'bad interpreter' error:
> 
> bash: /media/cdrom/autorun.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission
> denied
> 
> 
> sh is a symlink to bash. I have no problem running #!/bin/sh scripts
> elsewhere; it's only from the cd that it fails. The cd script has the x
> bits set.
> 
> Is there some special mojo I need to perform to allow running scripts
> from a cd?

It was probably automatically mounted with the 'noexec' option. If so,
remounting it with 'exec' should fix the problem.

mount -o remount,exec /media/cdrom

-- 
All the best,
Brian Pitts


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