[maemo-developers] on N900 after gainroot, executing shell script throws permission denied error.

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 01:50:14PM +0200, koos vriezen wrote:
> 2010/7/21 praveen koduru <prawin1111 at gmail.com>:
> > Yes it has executable permissions
> > but not able to execute the shell script.
> 
> First line of shell script? Which should look like
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> Note that your script must be in UNIX text format (i.e. only a newline
> and not carriage-return+newline like DOS/Windows text files have)
> 
> Could be the filesystem too, eg. /home/user/MyDocs is on my device
> mounted with the noexec option.

This would be my guess.

I keep my shell scripts in /home/user/bin, and I've added that directory
to the $PATH by putting

  export PATH=/home/user/bin:$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin

in /home/user/.profile

Marius Gedminas
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