Opening executables as Text files.

[nagisa]

So I have Python file :


#!/usr/bin/env python
print 'python'
raw_input('')
And another :


#!/usr/bin/python
print 'python'
raw_input('')
Both they are with 777 permisions
Before I reinstalled Ubuntu (From 10.10 to 10.10), I always got prompt window to run it in either Terminal, standalone or open as text file.
Now it just opens it as text file(Octal Permissions 100777, In preferences->Behavior it's set to Ask each time.)

From terminal running it using this :

/media/sda3/Python/python.py
Prints :

bash: /media/sda3/Python/python.py: Permission denied
And using this :

python /media/sda3/Python/python.py
prints :

python
<Waiting input>
as it should. I don't want to take such a hassle always running python by path. P.S. I'm still newbie at Ubuntu.

[3Miro]

What kind of disk is sda3 (internal/external). How are you mounting it. What are the permissions and ownership of all the olders going to /media/sda3/Python/your_file.py?

It is possible that the HDD is mounted with flags that prevent any program from executing. This is in addition and independent from the regular 777 permissions. When you call

python your_file
the executable is "python" and your file is just being read as input. In the case of

./your_file
then your file is the executable itself.

[nagisa]

It's just another partition on same disk.
sda1 - linux partition
sda3 - media partition
sda5 - swap
I used Storage Device manager to configure my partitions, so I took screenshots of it.
fstab file:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=09f82d30-3d88-492a-941d-aa39081f389c / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=6e3bbc18-05b9-4dc2-aa8c-674ecd073478 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/sda3 ext4 users,user 0 0
BTW: I grabbed on idea I catched from your post : .py files that I paste on desktop works fine.

[3Miro]

In your fstab file, you should add "exec" option to /dev/sda3 to allow files inside to be started as executables. You can also change the "users,user" to defualts, which I think includes all of the above. I have four partitions, all of them use defaults and I can execute files from all.

[nagisa]

In your fstab file, you should add "exec" option to /dev/sda3 to allow files inside to be started as executables. You can also change the "users,user" to defualts, which I think includes all of the above. I have four partitions, all of them use defaults and I can execute files from all.

Thanks, default solved it all.