Re: Executable shell scripts

[Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>]

On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:07:12PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 13:03 +0200, Mark Rosenstand wrote:
> > Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 12:38 +0200, Mark Rosenstand wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Is it in any (reasonable) way possible to make Linux support executable
> > > > shell scripts? Perhaps through binfmt_misc?
> > > 
> > > ehhhhhh this is already supposed to work.
> > 
> > It doesn't:
> > 
> > bash-3.00$ cat << EOF > test
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > echo "yay, I'm executing!"
> > > EOF
> > bash-3.00$ chmod 111 test
> > bash-3.00$ ./test
> > /bin/sh: ./test: Permission denied
    ^^^^^^^

> is your script readable as well? 111 is just weird/odd.

BTW, Mark, you should have noticed that you script was executed and that
it's /bin/sh which cannot read it. At the risk of repeating myself, please
do a 'man chmod'.

Willy