[CentOS] vsifax on Centos 5.1

Wed Dec 12 03:24:51 UTC 2007
Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec at PoMec.Net>

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