James B. Byrne wrote: > Problem: > As 'root', when running a script resident on the external drive mounted at > /media/disk I receive the following error: > > /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied > > Usually, I've found this is because the file is stored with DOS style line endings. Maybe you could try: dos2unix -n hello.sh hello2.sh chmod +x hello2.sh ./hello2.sh Does that fix it? Greg