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samcorcos
samcorcos

Reputation: 2478

CircleCI permission denied running bash script

I have a circle.yml file like so:

dependencies:
  override:
    - meteor || curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh

deployment:
  production:
    branch: "master"
    commands:
      - ./deploy.sh

When I push to Github, I get the error:

/home/ubuntu/myproject/deploy.sh returned exit code 126

bash: line 1: /home/ubuntu/myproject/deploy.sh: Permission denied Action failed: /home/ubuntu/myproject/deploy.sh

When I run the commands that live inside deploy.sh outside of the file (under commands) everything runs fine.

Everything in the circle.yml file seems to be in line with the examples in the CircleCI docs.. What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 31

Views: 22306

Answers (4)

Jesse Sanders
Jesse Sanders

Reputation: 521

I was having the same issue. I added sh to the front of my commands section to get it to work.

deployment:
  production:
    branch: "master"
    commands:
      - sh ./deploy.sh

Hopefully that fix saves everyone sometime going forward.

Upvotes: 35

Adam Lane
Adam Lane

Reputation: 1924

Assuming you have already checked it in, use this command to flag it as executable to git:

git update-index --chmod=+x script.sh

reference: https://www.pixelninja.me/make-script-committed-to-git-executable/

Upvotes: 17

MikeSchinkel
MikeSchinkel

Reputation: 5036

As @palfrey says the script is probably not marked as executable, and sometimes it seems to be marked wrong on deployment even when you have previously run chmod +x on your script at your local machine. (Why? I don't know. If someone does please enlighten me!)

Here is a general command to use to ensure your scripts are always marked as executable. This assumes they are all located in a /home/ubuntu/${CIRCLE_PROJECT_REPONAME}/scripts directory and all have a .sh extension. If your directory(s) is(are) different, edit to use your directory instead.

Since all my scripts source a shared script (shared.sh) at the top of each script that are called by circle.yml I add the following code to shared.sh which ensures all scripts are marked as executable:

SCRIPTS="/home/ubuntu/${CIRCLE_PROJECT_REPONAME}/scripts"
find "${SCRIPTS}" | grep "\.sh$" | xargs chmod +x

Works like a charm. :-)

Upvotes: 0

Tom Parker-Shemilt
Tom Parker-Shemilt

Reputation: 1697

Several possible problems:

  1. deploy.sh might not be marked as executable (chmod +x deploy.sh would fix this)
  2. The first line of deploy.sh might not be a runnable shell...

If the first doesn't work, can we please see the contents of deploy.sh?

Upvotes: 51

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