[lug] Permission denied attempting to run setiathome

[Franklin Bowen]

Unix oldie but Linux newbie and I'm obviously missing something.

I think it's a vfat issue because I moved the executable to /root, chmod u+x 
and it runs.  But I can't chmod +x the executable on the vfat partition (I 
assume due to vfat limitations).  I can write to this directory because I 
extracted setiathome from the .tar file.

Help!  I want to get my CPU cycles doing something useful while I learn about 
and configure everything.  Thanks!


[root at slowasmud SETI at home]# ./setiathome
bash: ./setiathome: Permission denied

[root at slowasmud SETI at home]# pwd
/mnt/E/SETI at home

[root at slowasmud SETI at home]# ls -la
drwxr-xr-x    2 fbowen   users       32768 Sep 11 09:18 .
drwxr-xr-x   16 fbowen   users       16384 Dec 31  1969 ..
-r--r--r--    1 fbowen   users      362012 Sep 11 09:18 setiathome
-rw-r--r--    1 fbowen   users      131000 Sep 11 08:23 setiathomeSharedLibs

[root at slowasmud SETI at home]# df -T
Filesystem    Type   1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1     vfat     2096160   1434688    661472  69% /mnt/E

[root at slowasmud root]# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda1                /mnt/E             auto    auto,users 0 0