[CentOS] vsifax on Centos 5.1

Wed Dec 12 03:36:18 UTC 2007
Clint Dilks <clintd at scms.waikato.ac.nz>

Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 16:12 +1300, Clint Dilks wrote:
>   
>> Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 15:47 +1300, Clint Dilks wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 15:32 -0800, Liam Kirsher wrote:
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Does eula stand for End User Licensing Agreement, perhaps?  Just a guess.
>>>>>> If it's a script why don't you just look in it (the calling script) and
>>>>>> see what it's doing?
>>>>>> Also, maybe the eula binary exists (did you look for it?) but is not
>>>>>> executable, which should be easy to fix.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> All....
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am trying to install vsifax on a 64 bit Centos 5.1 system.  The Esker
>>>>>>> staff have been helpful but no cigar.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> At first they thought the problem might be related to a 64 bit machine
>>>>>>> so I tried to install vsifax on a 32 bit Centos 5.1 machine and received
>>>>>>> the same error.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One of their installation scripts is trying to execute a binary called
>>>>>>> eula which fails.  
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  ./eula: cannot execute binary file
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The tech support of vsifax advised me they had one other customer use
>>>>>>> Centos 4.5 and succeeded in a vsifax installation.  
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I was hoping whoever had the other vsifax installation might be
>>>>>>> listening to this list and could give me a hand.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks much!!!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Greg Ennis
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>>>       
>>>>>>>           
>>>>>>>               
>>>>> The vsifax documentation does not declare what the file is, but their
>>>>> installation scripts try to execute the 'eula' file and and fails.  In
>>>>> looking at the contents of the file it is not a simple script, but looks
>>>>> like a binary executable file.  I tried to execute the file manually and
>>>>> received the same error :
>>>>>
>>>>> [root at MailIn install]# ./eula
>>>>> -bash: ./eula: cannot execute binary file
>>>>>
>>>>> The file is executable :
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1  227  105 374644 Apr 19  2007 eula
>>>>>
>>>>> The file is not a script, The beginning of the file is :
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your help!!
>>>>>
>>>>> Greg
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>>>> Hi,
>>>> What information is returned when you type file eula ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> typing in ./eula returns
>>> -bash: ./eula: cannot execute binary file
>>>
>>> I have also tested some of their binary executable files and get the
>>> results.  I looks like to me that they complied the files for a system
>>> different than EL5 Linux.
>>>
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>> Hi, if you type file <file to test> it should give you information eg on 
>> one of my systems if I type
>>
>> file /usr/bin/pstree
>>
>> /usr/bin/pstree: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 
>> (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Clint,
>
> Sorry... did . not understand your grammar thanks for the clarification
>
> Here is the result.
> eula: executable (RISC System/6000 V3.1) or obj module not stripped
>
> Looks like to me that they gave me the wrong binaries.  Do you agree?
>
> Greg
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Hi, Definitely.

I can't tell you off hand what system its compiler for but most likely 
AIX or PowerPC.

Tkae Care