[lug] Permission denied attempting to run setiathome

[Franklin Bowen]

On Wednesday 11 September 2002 10:51, you wrote:
> * Franklin Bowen (fmbbowen at dimensional.com) wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I would suspect that perhaps the VFAT parition is being mounted without
> execute permissions enabled.  So even though VFAT itself can't support
> permissions, Linux will enforce it on the entire partition.
>
> Try adding 'exec' to your options in /etc/fstab and remount it, then give
> it a try.
>
> /dev/hda1    /dos        iso9660  defaults,user,noauto,exec        0 0
>
> Is an example
>
> HTH,
>
> Tim

Thanks, that did it!

But the linux version number (3.03 vs. 3.07 for Windoze) is different so it 
erased all my work files and started over anyway.  :-(