[SOLVED] shell-scripts not executable though x bit set

[commander-keen]

Hello,

I recently installed Gentoo. My problem is: I can't launch scripts but i do not understand why.
I have my personal scripts in ~/bin/, which is part of the PATH variable:

maex@celadon:~ $ echo $PATH
/usr/share/tomcat7/bin/:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i486-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.6.3:/home/maex/bin:/opt/android/tools:/opt/android/platform-tools

so randomly picking one script the permissions look good (x bit is set):
-rwx------ 1 maex users 229 Oct 18 09:50 publish

But when I try to launch the script, I get this:
maex@celadon:~ $ publish
bash: /home/maex/bin/publish: Permission denied

Same when I try to launch them directly from ~/bin
maex@celadon:bin $ ./publish
bash: ./publish: Permission denied

But: I can do this (without knowing the difference):
maex@celadon:bin $ . publish
(note the blank between dot and publish)

Someone told me this may be linked to fstab settings, since I can launch the scripts when they lie e.g. in /tmp
fstab for my home partition looks like this:
/dev/sda3 /home ext3 user 0 1

Thanks in advance,
Max

[snkmoorthy]

what is the shell interpreter set in the script?

[blu3bird]

[commander-keen]

[quote="blu3bird"]Or you could change your fstab to [i]user,exec[/i] and remount or reboot.[/quote]

Yes!
Thank you!

[py-ro]

And "." is the same as "source".

[Hu]

Why did you make /home mountable by normal users? On most systems, you want to mount that filesystem automatically at startup and never worry about having users mount it.