running shell scripts from external USB disk

[David G. Miller]

joukj at hrem.nano.tudelft.nl (Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen) wrote: 

>Hi all,
>
>I have a FC5 system with an internal disk and a external USB disk withanext3 partition on it. If a shell script (bash,csh etc..) is located on the
>internal drive it works fine. If I copy it to the USB disk I get problems:
>(why????)
>
>
>aaee-jj ) ./test.sh
>./test.sh: Permission denied.
>aaee-jj ) ty test.sh
>#!/bin/tcsh
>aaee-jj ) ls -al *.sh
>-rwx--x--x 1 joukj joukj 1683 Apr 10 15:36 sg-dupes-mv.sh
>-rwx------ 1 joukj joukj   12 May 16 16:15 test.sh
>aaee-jj ) who am i
>joukj    pts/4        2006-05-19 16:03 (:0.0)
>aaee-jj )
>
>
>                        Jouk
>
Check the contents of the script.  You can get a "permission denied" 
from a command within the script.  This will look just like you are 
getting "permission denied" for the script itself.  Also, look at 
ownership and permissions for the files the script acts on.  Could be 
the USB drive is getting mounted as owned by root or the UID or GID for 
the files are different on the USB drive than what you expect.

Cheers,
Dave

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