I am working on AIX 5.2.0.0

I am unable to execute any of the scripts or .profile

[/udb/home/udbpa024]>ls -l .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 udbpa024 dbspa024 703 Jan 04 08:11 .profile

[/udb/home/udbpa024]>. .profile
ksh: /udb/home/udbpa024: 0403-006 Execute permission denied

[/udb/home/udbpa024]>id
uid=205(udbpa024) gid=214(dbspa024) groups=1(staff)

I have set the PATH in .profile
PATH=/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:$HOME/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:.
export PATH

Even when i try to execute any other test script it is giving me same error

[/udb/home/udbpa024]>ls -l test
-rwx------ 1 udbpa024 dbspa024 1 Jan 04 08:14 test
[/udb/home/udbpa024]>ksh test
ksh: test: 0403-006 Execute permission denied.

[/udb/home/udbpa024]>lsuser udbpa024
udbpa024 id=205 pgrp=dbspa024 groups=dbspa024,staff home=/udb/home/udbpa024 she
l=/usr/bin/ksh roles=


can some one suggest what is going on

thank you

... and what are the permissions of the '/usr/bin/ksh'?
Also.... in any of your scripts do you specify the shell interpreter to use? [#!/bin/ksh] or something?

I am very sorry , i am calling another script from my .profile
so there is some typo in that

thank you very much for your suggestions

just curious... what is the difference between using #!/usr/bin/ksh and #!/bin/ksh ?


Thanks.