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Date:      Tue, 11 Aug 1998 02:01:09 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        jock <jock@cybercity.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BAD MAGIC 
Message-ID:  <199808110901.CAA01548@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Aug 1998 20:40:05 PDT." <199808110340.UAA27276@implode.root.com> 

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>>we are trying to load a circle mud to onto freebsd...and we keep getting
>>a bad magic error...any ideas. I have tried gmake, and make. It give a
>>libgc.a error message...If you write to root@surf.cybercity.com, I will
>>catch it quicker...the user who is trying to load it is
>>amud@surf.cybercity.com. I am trying to provide this free mud to the
>>internet...the t1 was delayed since Bell Alantic is on strike....I will
>>be visiting your page a lot.

    To which I said:

>   The "bad magic" is telling you that the system is trying to execute
>something isn't a FreeBSD binary. Check the name and path...

   On second thought, the system wouldn't report that problem that way.
When do you see this message? Is it possibly coming from fsck during
system startup?

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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