Re: timeseal program doesn't work with FreeBSD-5.1

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 06/30/03

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    Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:53:26 -0700
    To: Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella <jrh@lab.it.uc3m.es>
    
    
    

    On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:49:01AM +0200, Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella wrote:
    > Hello:
    >
    > 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).
    >
    > This program adjust clocks when network delay appears
    > or something like that, I'm not an expert on the subject.
    >
    > The problem is that this program use to work on FreeBSD-4.X
    > but it's not working any longer with FreeBSD-5.0
    >
    > When I exec: timeseal.FreeBSD www.freechess.org 5000 this
    > error appears:
    >
    > bash: ./timeseal.FreeBSD: cannot execute binary file
    >
    > "ldd" shows this:
    >
    > ldd: timeseal.FreeBSD: not a dynamic executable
    >
    > 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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