SOLVED! On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <raju.rajsand at gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > Sorry for answering my own mail Turns out that the location where the file is happens to be another partition mounted with user option. And that enables noexec. remounted the partition with exec option and things seem to be working now. IT flummoxed me for a moment... Thanks and Regards Rajagopal