CentOS - Jul 2008 - Can't run a bash script from USB drive

I just tried to run a bash script (called "whose") from my USB drive
and I get this:

bash: /mt/bin/whose: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied

I did some googling and found that this is because my USB drive is
mounted with noexec permission.  When I was running FC8, this was not
the case.

How can I control this (i.e., allow 'exec' on my USB drive(s))?

Thanks

mhr

> How can I control this (i.e., allow 'exec' on my USB drive(s))?
either:

mount /media/usb -o remount,exec

or more preferable, add exec into the /etc/fstab entry for your usb 
drive (you might have to create one). It'll look something like:

/media/usb  /dev/sdb1              vfat    exec,user        0 0



/media/usb is the point you will mount to, and /dev/sdb1 is the actual 
usb device. vfat is the filesystem type, and may be something else if 
you've formatted the stick; but if it's an actual hard drive, it could 
be something like ntfs. "man fstab" has a list of all the filesystems.

"user" will let non-root mount it.


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MHR, this has been asked already yesterday. *Please* do read other posts!

Kai

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