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installing ovftool from vmware
in Installation
# ./VMware-ovftool-3.5.0-1274719-lin.x86_64.bundle
Extracting VMware Installer...done.
./VMware-ovftool-3.5.0-1274719-lin.x86_64.bundle: line 302: /tmp/vmis.F8TC6L/install/vmware-installer/vmware-installer: Permission denied
Extracting VMware Installer...done.
./VMware-ovftool-3.5.0-1274719-lin.x86_64.bundle: line 302: /tmp/vmis.F8TC6L/install/vmware-installer/vmware-installer: Permission denied
I am root using 'sudo su' on rhel 6
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I was getting the same error before I remounted the partition
execute mount command
if you see noexec attriibute next to your tmp partition you need to remount it executable 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 remove noexec attibute in the line
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?