open-vm-tools gets Permission Denied errors when /tmp is mounted noexec
Issue
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open-vm-tools fails with
vmtoolsd[105838]: /tmp/vmware-root/vixScript0: line 1: /tmp/vmware-root/vmware197: Permission denied
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
- open-vm-tools
- VMware ESXi
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