My first post.

I have check forums... Virtual & Cloud / Desktop & Server, no posts seemed to have my answer, so I am posting this in General. Please move this to the proper forum at your convnince. Thank You in advance.

I am not an newbie. My first Unix/*nix was Santa Cruz Operating Systems some #of years ago but I am still perplexed.

I am hard logged in as root (uid=0, gid=0) on a Rocky 9 Linux Box.
I am attempting to perform a simple chmod on a "the_file".bundle file. No success.

"the_file" is actually...
VWware-Workstation-Full-17.0.2-21581411.x86_64.bundle
It's just easier to type "the_file"

My command line actions so for are as thus

# mnt /dev/sda1 /mnt
# cd /mnt
# chmod 744 "the_file"
No error message thrown.

but the following #ls -l
shows

# -rw-r--r-- root root time/date stamp "the_file"

No execute bit set.

I have also copied "the_file" from the /mnt mount point to the actual hard drive. Same results so I don't belive it is an issue with the USB stick.

Perhaps, but I doubt it, could it be because it is a .bundle file or it Vmware??? file.
It should not. To the OS it's just another file. I an still perplexed.

Any Input, insight or advice would be Greatly welcomed.

Thank You
Steven

Probably fat mounted with noexec option, remount with -o exec

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Does noexec prevent from setting an x permission??
IMHO noexec only makes the exec() syscalls ignore the x.

Maybe there is another special mount option or a special filesystem type?

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Yes. When you say # mnt /dev/sda1 /mnt, you don't suggest what filesystem might "own" that particular device. If perhaps it is not a "native Linux" filesystem, or if there are particular options in fstab, this could be an explanation for what you are now seeing.

Thanks all for the input. I have an update.

#cat /etc/fstab returns

fs_spec fs_file fs_vfstype fs_mnttype fs_freq fs_passno
/dev/mapper/rl-public /public xfs defaults 0 0

I downloaded a 2nd copy of "the_file".bundle. There WAS a difference in the Byte count.

I moved "the_file" to /public and executed it. It added WMware-Workstation-Full-17.0.2...... to Apps.
Launched Workstation app. It returned, requires GCC 11.3.1. Downloaded and installed the Compiler.
I even copied a text book add2nums.c to /public. Compiled the .c file & run the a.out file successfully.
At least printf() & scanf() work. So I re-launched the VMware-Workstation & it returned this time with...
unable to install all modules, see log /tmp/wmware-root/vmware-226609.log

cat'd the lof file, mostly rotine stuff, however a few lines caught my attenion.

line 12: appLoader VMDEVEL not set
13: Using configuration file: /etc/vmware/config
38: appLoader Setup LD_LIBRAY_PATH
.
.
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I cat'd /etc/vmware/config. Again mostly routine stuff. But it did show
vmware.fullpath = /usr/bin/vmware.

Thought perhaps the apps got confused, so I ran /usr/bin/vmware mannually. Same Results.

Again, any more inpuut would be greatly welcomed.
Thank you



















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