[SOLVED] bash scripts not running on LMDE

[midden]

I recently switched from Linux Mint Maya to LMDE.
I am used to running bash scripts by calling them directly:
myscript.sh:

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#!/bin/bash
echo "Hello World!"

Change permissions, but running the script fails:

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$ chmod +x myscript.sh
$ ./myscript.sh
bash: ./myscript.sh: Permission denied

So I have to call bash directly for it to run:

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$ bash ./myscript.sh
Hello World!

How do I get the behavior I am used to (i.e., running scripts without calling bash directly)?

[jdhedden]

You need the execute bit set on the directory as well.

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chmod +x .

[midden]

That did not work. The directory already had full rwx access for all users. I suspect this is a weird permissions thing because I just installed LMDE on another machine and I have no issues running scripts. I think this problem is because I had to play around with UID and GID numbers to make my old home directory readable (I am not using it as /home, just symlinking to relevant folders). Any ideas how to track down the source of this?

[midden]

OK, this is weird. In my home directory, I can run scripts and there is normal tab-completion of the file names if I start with "./"

However, if I am in my symlinked directory there is no tab completion and I have to run the file using "$ bash ./myscript.sh"

I am the owner and group for these folders and files, have full rwx access. What is going on here?

(Again, this linked folder is the home directory of another Mint flavor on another partition so there may be some weirdness there)

[karlchen]

Hello, midden.

Could it be that the script which you cannot execute in spite of adding the executable bit is located on a FAT32 or NTFS filesysem, i.e. on a non-Linux filesystem?

Kind regards,
Karl

[midden]

Ugh... it was a weird fstab issue. Somehow the LMDE was mounting the partition as "user,rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0"

I changed this to "defaults 0 2" and all is well. I _think_ this is because the defaults have the "exec" flag on, but I am not sure. Regardless, I learned something!

Thanks for your help.