I downloaded a small program from the web. Threw it in a folder on my boot stick and tried to change the rights to it, but oddly even when signed in as root will not change. Here is a little screen shot of the command line showing this.

 

 

That is by design.  For security reasons files on the flash drive cannot have their ‘execute’ bit set.

 

if you want to execute script files from the flash then you have to precede the file name with ‘sh’ (or ‘bash’).

Thank you! I moved the script to the array. Not knowing if that would skew the results or not. I doubt it. Thanks again.