FC5: Can't execute perl script from mounted CD

Douglas Phillipson phillipd at oem.doe.gov
Fri Aug 4 17:11:40 UTC 2006



Patrick Doyle wrote:
> This doesn't help much but...
> 
>> I think the noexec is not allowing me to run the perl script, but I'm
>> not sure.
>>
> Yes, you are correct.
> 
> What I've done to work around this is
> 
> $ sudo mount -o remount,ro,uid=500,utf8 /dev/hdc /media/disk
> 
> I am curious as well to learn how the default options are selected,
> (although, I guess I haven't been curious enough to track it down
> myself :-)
> 
> --wpd
> 

Yes I'm aware I could do that but I can't have my users doing this.  I 
wonder why the default behavior has changed in FC5 and I really need to 
discover how to change this bad behavior back to FC4's behavior...

Regards

Doug P




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