hi Duncan, the disk the home dirs are situated on (where the script was living) was indeed mounted as noexec. THANK YOU for saving me hours of mental torture (and teaching me something in the process), thanks to everyone else for giving their time/energy. kind regards, Jochem Duncan Hill wrote: > On Monday 07 August 2006 09:11, Jochem Maas wrote: >> hi Robert, >> >> thanks for thinking with me .... > > Answer to list doesn't seem to have arrived. > > Check that your filesystem isn't mounted noexec. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php