CentOS - Jul 2009 - install DVD mounted -noexec by default == bad interpreter permission denied

Installing matlab on Centos5.

command I typed:

/media/MATHWORKS_R2009A/install &

Error message I received:
[1] 10759
[root at taro matlab]# bash: /media/MATHWORKS_R2009A/install: /bin/sh:
bad interpreter: Permission denied

Google found no hits with this precise error message, but several
similar hits when I leave out the matlab path.

Solution:

mount -o remount -o exec /dev/scd0

(scd0 is the drive where the DVD is inserted.)

Hope this helps someone with the same problem.

Dave



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Dave wrote:
> Installing matlab on Centos5.
> 
> command I typed:
> 
> /media/MATHWORKS_R2009A/install &
> 
> Error message I received:
> [1] 10759
> [root at taro matlab]# bash: /media/MATHWORKS_R2009A/install: /bin/sh:
> bad interpreter: Permission denied
> 
> Google found no hits with this precise error message, but several
> similar hits when I leave out the matlab path.
> 
> Solution:
> 
> mount -o remount -o exec /dev/scd0
> 
> (scd0 is the drive where the DVD is inserted.)
> 
> Hope this helps someone with the same problem.
You could have probably run the script using:

sh /media/MATHWORKS_R2009A/install

James Pearson

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Dave<tdbtdb+centos at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Installing matlab on Centos5.
> [root at taro matlab]# bash: /media/MATHWORKS_R2009A/install: /bin/sh:
> bad interpreter: Permission denied
Sometimes this can happen if the file has Windows-style EOLs and the
interpreter /bin/sh is translated as /bin/sh^M
Indeed, on a Centos 5 here, the sh is in /bin/sh so the script
probably should have worked.

Check if that is the case. If so, running dos2unix against the shell
script might solve the problem.
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