[rhn-users] Re: cannot execute binary file

[Cameron Simpson]

On 05Mar2007 22:36, Pete Masse <pete at chemistry.montana.edu> wrote:
| I've run into some trouble lately when installing software on RHES ES 4
| EM64 .  Newly installed executables will not execute.  Even when including
| the entire path, I still get the error message "Cannot execute binary
| file".  Permissions are 755, file is owned by root and belongs to the root
| group.  I tried starting it from a non privileged user and still the same.
|  SELinux has been disabled in an effort to try and debug this.  The
| executables I am talking about are supposed to be compiled for 64 bit
| Linux.
| 
| This has happened to two different executable files so far, and it seems
| to me that I remember there being some security attribute that will not
| allow executable files to run just anywhere or something like that.

What does the "file" command say about these files,
and what does it say about a working binary file?

What does "ldd" report about these files, too? Maybe you're missing a
library.
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