Permission Denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread R. G. Newbury
Weird problem. I downloaded an svn version of mythtv, cd'd to the folder, and tried to run './configure --help', Got a 'Permission Denied' error. I am root and the permissions were and are 0775...chmod changes nothing, even trying 0777. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? The

Re: Permission Denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread Thomas Cameron
R. G. Newbury wrote: Weird problem. I downloaded an svn version of mythtv, cd'd to the folder, and tried to run './configure --help', Got a 'Permission Denied' error. I am root and the permissions were and are 0775...chmod changes nothing, even trying 0777. Does anyone have any idea what

Re: Permission Denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread laurence orchard
Thomas Cameron wrote: R. G. Newbury wrote: Weird problem. I downloaded an svn version of mythtv, cd'd to the folder, and tried to run './configure --help', Got a 'Permission Denied' error. I am root and the permissions were and are 0775...chmod changes nothing, even trying 0777. Does

Re: Permission Denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:50am on Monday, August 25, 2008 (UK time), R. G. Newbury scrawled: Weird problem. I downloaded an svn version of mythtv, cd'd to the folder, and tried to run './configure --help', Got a 'Permission Denied' error. Is the directory on an NFS mount? If so, was it mounted with the

Re: Permission Denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread R. G. Newbury
From: R. G. Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Permission Denied error for root user when perms are 0775? To: fedora-list@redhat.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Weird problem. I downloaded an svn version of mythtv, cd'd to the folder

Re: Permission denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread R. G. Newbury
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Re: Permission denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread Stuart Sears
R. G. Newbury wrote: [ edited for relevance ] Thanks to both of you. Good pointers. The drive is a partition on the same spindle, mounted '-t ext3 /dev/sda5 /keep', BUT /etc/fstab has the partition as 'users,defaults'...so it IS possible that 'defaults' = 'noexec'...easily tested: thank you.

Re: Permission Denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread Dave Feustel
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:05:21PM -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote: From: R. G. Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Permission Denied error for root user when perms are 0775? To: fedora-list@redhat.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Weird

Re: Permission denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread R. G. Newbury
From: Stuart Sears [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ edited for relevance ] Thanks to both of you. Good pointers. The drive is a partition on the same spindle, mounted '-t ext3 /dev/sda5 /keep', BUT /etc/fstab has the partition as 'users,defaults'...so it IS possible that 'defaults' =

Re: Permission Denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread R. G. Newbury
From: Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check the permissions of all the directories in the path leading to the executable generating the 'permission denied' message. Been there, done that. Thought of that very early on. The /bin directory is 755 as usual, as is the executable. Everything in

Re: Permission denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
R. G. Newbury wrote: Thank you, that is the likely answer. 'Defaults' allows 'exec', but you have to read further down in the options to see that 'user' or 'users' implies 'noexec'. Thank you, thank you. Easy to test/check and I now think that could be the actual problem.And the fedora