Re: Strange diagnostic

["Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@cs.msu.su>]

> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:40:50AM +0000, Oliver Elphick 
<olly@lfix.co.uk> was heard to say:
> > > nikita@sercond:~> ls -l /usr/local/sbin/restart-after-upgrade
> > > -rwxr--r--    1 root     root         1044  11  2001
> >
> > The problem is that the user doesn't have execute permission on
> > /path/to/interpreter
>
>   Actually, I would rather suspect that the user doesn't have execute
> permission on /usr/local/sbin/restart-after-upgrade.

Really he does not.
The original questions was - why the error message is such strange, not 
just "Permision denied".