[vox-tech] Binary problems

[Peter Jay Salzman]

cam,

what does file report the "binary" as?  perhaps it's not an ELF.

pete

On Thu 26 Feb 04,  9:43 AM, Doctorcam <cam@ellisonet.ca> said:
> I have downloaded a commercial fax program (free version, for
> evaluation).  It is in binary (i.e. *.bin).  I have permissions set to
> execute (100755).  
> 
> It will not run, even as "sh primafax_l.bin".
> 
> strace gives me the following (in part - hope the wrapping does not confuse):
> 
> open("primafax_l.bin", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4
> ioctl(4, TCGETS, 0xbffff79c)            = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
> _llseek(4, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR)            = 0
> read(4, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260\200"..., 80) = 80
> write(2, "primafax_l.bin: primafax_l.bin: "..., 59primafax_l.bin: primafax_l.bin: cannot execute binary file
> ) = 59
> exit_group(126)
> 
> I presume it cannot find the proper tty.  At the moment I have ttyS0
> and ttyS1 designated elsewhere, so this may be the problem.  I tried
> to set them to mgetty through inittab, but this had no impact.
> 
> I'd be grateful for any ideas.  Google, so far, has been un-helpful.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Cam
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