installing ovftool from vmware

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• ladowny Posts: 1

  December 2014

  Is your /tmp or /var/tmp partition mounted noexec ?
  I was getting the same error before I remounted the partition
  
  execute mount command

  # mount
  ....
  /dev/mapper/hostvg-tmp on /tmp type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
  ....
  

  
  if you see noexec attriibute next to your tmp partition you need to remount it executable

   mount -o remount,exec /tmp
  

  This may not always work if you have something running on your system that keeps open files on the /tmp partition ( eg MySQL server often does that ), you can try to mount it exec on boot

  # vi /etc/fstab
  

  remove noexec attibute in the line

  /dev/mapper/hostvg-tmp /tmp            ext3    defaults,nodev,nosuid,noexec 
  

  
  and reboot your system
  
  Note that mounting /tmp noexec is actually security related

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• saqman2060 Posts: 777

  December 2014

  ladowny wrote:

  Is your /tmp or /var/tmp partition mounted noexec ?
  I was getting the same error before I remounted the partition
  
  execute mount command

  # mount
  ....
  /dev/mapper/hostvg-tmp on /tmp type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
  ....
  

  
  if you see noexec attriibute next to your tmp partition you need to remount it executable

   mount -o remount,exec /tmp
  

  This may not always work if you have something running on your system that keeps open files on the /tmp partition ( eg MySQL server often does that ), you can try to mount it exec on boot

  # vi /etc/fstab
  

  remove noexec attibute in the line

  /dev/mapper/hostvg-tmp /tmp            ext3    defaults,nodev,nosuid,noexec 
  

  
  and reboot your system
  
  Note that mounting /tmp noexec is actually security related

  
  This is an interesting case. Do you think that mounting a folder with noexec prevents files from executing if they must be ran?

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