Help with permission denied executing a perl script from the command line

[tanoloco]

Hello!

I was setting up a lamp, configuring the cgi-bin folder
but I was always getting a permission denied message in error.log
stopping me.

I changed everything I could think but still I can't browse
to my script.

Please can anyone help me?

Scenario:

I wrote the easiest perl script in the world

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n\n";
print "Hello"

I checked my path to interpreter

$ which perl
/usr/bin/perl


I saved my script under /media/data/www/cgi-bin
and chmodded 777 everything in the path I mean:
data www cgi-bin and script.pl
They are all 777!
(Of course they are NOT my normal permissions, I use them only now for debugging)

if I open a terminal I get correctly

$ cd to /media/data/www/cgi-bin
$ perl script.pl
Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

Hello
but if I use

$ ./script.pl
bash: ./script.pl: Permission denied

same if I use
$ sudo ./script.pl
bash: unable to execute ./script.pl: Permission denied

So now!
I moved the script on /tmp and chmodded it 777
tried ./script.pl and it worked!

Then I suppose it's something about the way I mount the drive data.
Maybe I loose some permissions of execute something.
I mount it at start-up using fstab

/dev/sdb5 /media/data ext4 defaults,users,errors=remount-ro 0 1

Is there a way to tell it to execute everything?
Does anyone know how to solve it? I'm puzzled !!!

Many thanks in advance

[fdrake]

what does this command says?


ls -al script.pl

[tanoloco]

$ ls -al script.pl
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 88 2011-07-15 02:28 script.pl

[fdrake]

on fstab try adding umask=000 this should make all file executable.like this:


/dev/sdb5 /media/data ext4 defaults,users,umask=000,errors=remount-ro 0 1

link fstab otions (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab#Options)

[tanoloco]

Hey!

I found the solution thanks to this thread
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/cant-execute-c-binaries-permission-denied-even-though-permission-is-777-a-102959/

For me the solution was to change the fstab entry in

/dev/sdb5 /media/data ext4 defaults,exec,errors=remount-ro 1 1

I added exec, but it didn't work until I removed users, which is a group. I always thought defaults already contains exec, in fact it works even without exec.

I don't remember why I added this group name, now I have to check if this will cause me other problems somewhere ...

Anyhow this seems to be solved! :)

[cgroza]

Anyhow this seems to be solved! :)
Then mark the thread as such.:)

[tanoloco]

on fstab try adding umask=000 this should make all file executable.like this:


/dev/sdb5 /media/data ext4 defaults,users,umask=000,errors=remount-ro 0 1

link fstab otions (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab#Options)

I tried it, but:
changed fstab into

/dev/sdb5 /media/data ext4 defaults,users,umask=000,errors=remount-ro 1 1
and

$ sudo mount -o remount /media/data
mount: /media/data not mounted already, or bad option"

[tanoloco]

Then mark the thread as such.:)

Done! :)

Thank you all!
I hope this could help someone else ...

[tanoloco]

I don't remember why I added this group name, now I have to check if this will cause me other problems somewhere ...



Now I remember! It was for acl support!
As per my old thread
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1414003

So now I installed again acl and I changed fstab into

/dev/sdb5 /media/data ext4 users,exec,acl,errors=remount-ro 0 1
did some test and everything is woking perfectly!!

Both acl and cgi-bin issues!

Thanks again

PD: Why putting defaults and a group name stuck?