Wow! Thanks for the help. See my comments below pertaining to individual remarks. --greg
Alex asked: > is is possible that you saved the text file in DOS format, with CR-LF > endings instead of LF only? > > If "od -t x2 hello.py" shows 0a0d sequences, this is the case. You could > use dos2unix to convert. > $ od -t x2 hello.py 0000000 2123 752f 7273 622f 6e69 652f 766e 7020 0000020 7479 6f68 0a6e 7270 6e69 2074 6827 6c65 0000040 6f6c 202c 6f77 6c72 2764 000a 0000053 Nope. That looks good. Boyd Wrote: which env > > ls -l /usr/bin/env > ls -l /usr/bin/python I'm not sure what you are asking here. $ ls -l /usr/bin/env lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 18 2006 /usr/bin/env -> /bin/env $ ls -l /usr/bin/python lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 18 2006 /usr/bin/python -> python2.4 Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This leads to the question whether you can start *any* executable from > your > home directory (assuming you stored your script somewhere under your home > directory). If not so, do you mount your /home partition with the "noexec" > option? I have the same problem with Perl scripts; I haven't tried any others. Is there a way to tell how the partition is mounted? I'm sorry to say that I am a lowly user on the system and don't really know much about how it is set up. Thank-you so much for your attention. This is a small problem, as I can run the scripts with python (or perl) then the filename. I'd just like to understand what's happening. --greg
