cam, what does file report the "binary" as? perhaps it's not an ELF.
pete On Thu 26 Feb 04, 9:43 AM, Doctorcam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > -- > Cam Ellison > In lovely Roberts Creek > cam (at) ellisonet (dot) ca > H: 604-885-2897 > C: 604-802-7928 > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech