>This is weird, could it be SELinux related? Have you got SELinux >enabled? And if so, can it be switched off to check if it's the cause >of the problem? > >Will. Will, you found out the problem !!! Big thanks ! The problem was seated in the SElinux which was enforcing. Disabling it solved the problem. Now as I would still prefer to keep SElinux, I don't know exactly what I should do to make that work with it enabled. Here is the list of the SElinux properties (the context) for these files: Correct file in /, ls -alZ: -rwxr-xr-x root root root:object_r:root_t test.sh Buggy file in /home, ls -alZ: -rwxr-xr-x root root root:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t test.sh I have changed that context for all the /home directory to httpd_sys_content_t for apache to be able to display those files, this is the reason of the difference. However, I have installed JAVA tomcat and it has also automatically set /usr/java/jakarta-tomcat/bin/startup.sh in the same context without me asking that. This is also the reason why this script doesn't work there. However, why did this file set itself in this context, any idea ? BTW this was not the case on my other box where I also have JAVA installed and the statup.sh script works perfectly. Also what context should I put my files to, if I want to make sure that I can execute them and also be able to see them with apache (a link on one users's subdirectory) ? In the worst case I can still disable SElinux, but I'd rather keep it for security reasons. Thanks a lot, Daniel