Robert Komar wrote: > It's not just the permissions that are important, but whether > you can directly execute files within the temporary filesystem. > Run 'mount' and see if tmpfs is mounted with the 'noexec' > option. If it is, then that's at least one of your problems. Aha.. vega:/home/jws# mount /dev/hda5 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) /dev/hda6 on /dosd type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,umask=000) automount(pid2284) on /misc type autofs (rw,fd=4,pgrp=2284,minproto=2,maxproto=4) rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) vega:/home/jws# There doesn't seem to be a filesystem actually called tmpfs but there is devshm which has the "type" tmpfs. Is this a clue? Maybe I should make some link. I wonder what tricks were performed by my latest Debian dist-upgrade. For completeness, here is /etc/fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system><mount point><type><options> <dump><pass> /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda6 /dosd vfat defaults,rw,user,umask=000 0 0 /dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdd /cdrw iso9660 defaults,user,noauto 0 0 procyon:/ /nfs nfs defaults,noauto,rw 0 0 vega:/home/jws# There is no tmpfs, but there never was, and dosemu always worked (until today). Regards, Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
