Re: Executability problem

[michael chang <thenewme91@gmail.com>]

On 9/1/05, Kris Van Bruwaene <Kris.VanBruwaene@vrt.be> wrote:
> michael chang <thenewme91@gmail.com> schreef:
> 
> > On 9/1/05, Kris Van Bruwaene <Kris.VanBruwaene@vrt.be> wrote:
> > > Looks like you've hit it. How come it's noexec here and exec/defaults in /etc/fstab ??
> >
> > How are you mounting the filesystem? E.g. from a command line, or from
> > an init script; as root or as a user, etc.
> 
> It usually gets mounted at boot time, I suppose by an init script
> (I'm using Knoppix). But I just did (as root):
> root@A00012344:/home/kris# mount -o remount /home
> root@A00012344:/home/kris# cat /etc/fstab | grep home
> /dev/hda3 /home reiserfs defaults,exec,user,auto 0 0
> root@A00012344:/home/kris# cat /etc/mtab | grep home
> /dev/hda3 /home reiserfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
> 
> ...and it's still noexec!?

try
"mount -o remount,exec /home"
or 
"umount /home; mount /home;"
(or both)

As for the knoppix init scripts... they're pretty restrictive.  Like
mounting things read only, AFAIK.

-- 
~Mike
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