Linux permission denied after chmod a=rwx

Question

So I have a little Linux problem, geez that will teach me to spend so many years on Windows. Anyway I did a little java app, wrapped nicely with the Java Service Wrapper script, but when I run that script:

sh ./wrapper.sh console

I get permission denied right away. The permission denied message is like that:

eval: 1: /home/user1/MyApp/bin/wrapper: Permission denied

My little wrapper.sh lives in the MyApp/bin folder. The directory MyApp/bin/wrapper contains 2 files:

• wrapper-linux-x86-32
• wrapper-linux-x86-64

As a test I ran the following chmod command:

chmod a=rwx MyApp -R

I verified that everything was rwx, even in the sub-folders and tried to run the script again, with the exact same result... permission denied.

Anyone has any idea of what I could try next to make that baby run?

Thanks, Lancelot

Answer 1

The file system hosting your script might be mounted with the noexec flag. Check your /etc/fstab entry for that file system and if there's a noexec there try removing it then remounting that file system via mount /path/to/mountpoint -o remount

On second thought, check the output of the mount command for noexec instances instead of /etc/fstab (the file system might have been mounted dynamically.)