Thanks guys
is that normal on an install of suse to add the noexec flag to /home ?.
I haven’t come across that on other distros I’ve used.
I know Suse has a reputation for having its own peculiarities, as long as I know what they its not a problem.
I should have spotted that, bit tired after a complete reinstall and rebuild, 5 hours from new hard drive instal and recover 90% of the old HD contents.
thanks
Richard