[CentOS] vsifax on Centos 5.1

Wed Dec 12 03:12:04 UTC 2007
Clint Dilks <clintd at scms.waikato.ac.nz>

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