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[bpark]

$ls -l /bin/sh
-rwx-r-x-r-x 1 root root 8132 Apr 3 2002 /bin/sh

When I run any shell script, it tells me this:
bash: ./test: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied

Any ideas? I tried running this as root and as normal user.

[Dolda2000]

8132 bytes? That seems incredibly small for a shell. Can you run /bin/sh at all? Hadn't you installed some shell other than bash? Maybe something has happened to it (I dunno why, but just maybe). Until you can solve it, maybe you had better just "ln -sf bash /bin/sh".

[bpark]

Dolda,

Remember, when my /bin/sh is pointing at /bin/ash. That's the result I posted.
Yes, I can invoke ash (/bin/sh) from the command line. It only complains when I try to use it as a shell script. I tried using #!/bin/bash and the samething happens.
Everything was fine a week ago and the only thing that I did to the system was remove the group "brock."

[genlee]

You sure you are not trying to exec the scripts on a partition mounted with noexec?

[Dolda2000]

Yeah, I thought of that as well, but that just seems too crazy. Can binary programs be executed from the same directory, and do the system shell scripts work (like nroff)?

[bpark]

Binary programs can be executed. It's just the shell scripts in any directory keeps popping that message. Any ideas? I'm so confused as to what made this happen on the system.

[bpark]

Man, you guys are going to kill me but I realized that the permission in all files in my directory was reset at a certain time. I deeply apologize for this stupid problem.

[bpark]

Actaully, I'm glad that I ran into this. Would I just add the word "exec" to the appropriate filed in /etc/fstab to make executables run on mounted partitions?

[genlee]

You can execute files by default so as long as it doesn't say noexec, it should work.