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Date:      Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:53:26 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella <jrh@lab.it.uc3m.es>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: timeseal program doesn't work with FreeBSD-5.1
Message-ID:  <20030629225326.GG66294@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1030630004207.12143A-100000@lm002.lab.it.uc3m.es>
References:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.1030630004207.12143A-100000@lm002.lab.it.uc3m.es>

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On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:49:01AM +0200, Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella=
 wrote:
> Hello:
>=20
> I usuallly play chess on FICS. They use a programme
> called "Timeseal", which is pre-compiled for a lot
> of different platforms (Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc).
>=20
> This program adjust clocks when network delay appears
> or something like that, I'm not an expert on the subject.
>=20
> The problem is that this program use to work on FreeBSD-4.X
> but it's not working any longer with FreeBSD-5.0
>=20
> When I exec: timeseal.FreeBSD www.freechess.org 5000 this
> error appears:
>=20
> bash: ./timeseal.FreeBSD: cannot execute binary file
>=20
> "ldd" shows this:
>=20
> ldd: timeseal.FreeBSD: not a dynamic executable
>=20
> Why is binary compatibility broken with this executable ?

It's probably an a.out binary (i.e. the native format used in FreeBSD
2.x), which is not supported by default on FreeBSD 5.1.  See
/usr/src/UPDATING or the release notes for more information.

Kris
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