[plug] excuting from a mounted cd / cheap 100MB enet cards

[David Griffiths]

>On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, David Griffiths wrote:
>> All the exe permissions are on, including parent dir, user, group and world
>> running as root eg
>>   cd /mnt/cdrom/x/y/z
>>   ./an_exe
>>   bash: ./an_exe: Permission denied

>Off the top of my head, you might have the CD mounted noexec. Check the
>mount options.
>
>-Greg

Thanks Greg, spot on. It's curious that even with exec specified as an
option in fstab
the cd is still mounted noexec. Maybe there's a typo in the fstab and it's
picking up the default noexec. Mounting by hand does the trick.

Dave.



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