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by **James Turnbul** » Fri, 25 Apr 2003 18:55:30

I am having a weird problem under Redhat 8.

Some programs and binaries seem to have messed up permissions.

The best example is maildrop. It is located in /usr/local/bin/ and
previously ran fine. All of a sudden today I get a permission denied error
when trying to run it. When I copy the binary to /usr/bin it runs fine. I
can see no difference between the permissions and ownership on both
directories.

This happens with a few other binaries too. I've tried re-installing all the
relevant binaries to no avail.

Does anyone know what could be casuing this?

Thanks in advance

James Turnbull

by **Peter T. Breue** » Fri, 25 Apr 2003 19:24:05

> I am having a weird problem under Redhat 8.
> Some programs and binaries seem to have messed up permissions.
> The best example is maildrop. It is located in /usr/local/bin/ and
> previously ran fine. All of a sudden today I get a permission denied error
> when trying to run it. When I copy the binary to /usr/bin it runs fine. I
> can see no difference between the permissions and ownership on both
> directories.

Show the data. You are not describing "permission problems". You said
the perms are the same!

So show the data - your interpretation is manifestly false.

Peter

by **Eric Moor** » Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:50:11

Quote:> I am having a weird problem under Redhat 8.

> Some programs and binaries seem to have messed up permissions.

> The best example is maildrop. It is located in /usr/local/bin/ and
> previously ran fine. All of a sudden today I get a permission denied
> error when trying to run it. When I copy the binary to /usr/bin it runs
> fine. I can see no difference between the permissions and ownership on
> both directories.

I guess you somehow got /usr/local mounted with the noexec option
Don't do that :-)

Eric

by **Michael Heimin** » Sat, 26 Apr 2003 03:11:54

> I am having a weird problem under Redhat 8.
> Some programs and binaries seem to have messed up permissions.
> The best example is maildrop. It is located in /usr/local/bin/ and
> previously ran fine. All of a sudden today I get a permission denied error
> when trying to run it. When I copy the binary to /usr/bin it runs fine. I
> can see no difference between the permissions and ownership on both
> directories.
> This happens with a few other binaries too. I've tried re-installing all the
> relevant binaries to no avail.
> Does anyone know what could be casuing this?

Try 'lsattr /usr/local/bin'
man lsattr
man chattr

/usr/local/bin is on a seperate partition, which has been
mounted with noexec?

Try 'file /usr/local/bin/maildrop'.

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by **James Turnbul** » Sat, 26 Apr 2003 11:07:24

>> I am having a weird problem under Redhat 8.
> Try 'lsattr /usr/local/bin'
> man lsattr
> man chattr

> /usr/local/bin is on a seperate partition, which has been
> mounted with noexec?

> Try 'file /usr/local/bin/maildrop'.

Thanks all for the help - the permissions problems was with a higher level
directory. Don't know how they got changed.

Regards

James Turnbull

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