Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-08-02 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
In the 'strings' output, I noticed a typo - perfect for searching code because you hope people don't make too many of the SAME typos across multiple projects. What I noticed is that one of the entities was pount; (instead of pound;) When searching OHLOH (now Black Duck), it found 177 matches.

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-08-02 Thread Bill Horne
On 8/2/2014 1:42 AM, Tom Metro wrote: Quoting your original message: ...I'm seeking information about a binary named entities, and one named fixup. I've found them in a script that processes emails into html pages for publications, but the script's author isn't available, and neither is

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-08-01 Thread Bill Horne
On Fri, 1 Aug 2014 01:16:33 -0400 Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: As Tom suggested, what do you get with strings entities and file entitites This is the output of the stringscommand on the old machine moder8@old-massis:~/rsi$ strings /home/moder8/bin/entities I125

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-08-01 Thread Bill Horne
On Fri, 1 Aug 2014 01:16:33 -0400 Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: As Tom suggested, what do you get with strings entities and file entitites This is the output of the stringscommand on the old machine moder8@old-massis:~/rsi$ strings /home/moder8/bin/entities I125

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-08-01 Thread Tom Metro
Bill Horne wrote: moder8@old-massis:~/rsi$ strings /home/moder8/bin/entities I125 @(#) $Id: entities.c,v 1.4 2011/12/19 12:40:17 moder8 Exp $ [...] Now, the output of the files command on the old machine /home/moder8/bin/entities: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,\ version 1 (SYSV),

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-07-31 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Bill Horne b...@horne.net wrote: I'm moving the Telecom Digest to a new server, and I'm seeking information about a binary named entities, and one named fixup. I've found them in a script that processes emails into html pages for publications, but the

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-07-31 Thread Bill Horne
On 7/29/2014 6:06 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Bill Horne wrote: moder8@telecom:~/bin$ ls -lh /home/moder8/bin/entities -rwxrwxr-x 1 moder8 telecom 8.8K Jan 27 2012 /home/moder8/bin/entities moder8@telecom:~$ strace /home/moder8/bin/entities

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-07-31 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On 7/29/2014 6:06 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Have you examined /home/moder8/bin/entities with 'file', strings, and less? I would guess that it is a shell script with a missing interpreter, As Tom suggested, what do you get with strings entities and file entitites Greg Rundlett

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-07-29 Thread Bill Horne
On 7/28/2014 5:33 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Bill Horne wrote: No, they work on the old server, but fail on the new. I assume it's a permissions issue, but I can't figure out what might cause it. % strace entities Tom, Thanks for the suggestion. Here's a log snippet that may make this issue more

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-07-29 Thread Joe Polcari
: Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup On 7/28/2014 5:33 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Bill Horne wrote: No, they work on the old server, but fail on the new. I assume it's a permissions issue, but I can't figure out what might cause it. % strace entities Tom, Thanks

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-07-29 Thread Bill Horne
On 7/29/2014 3:44 PM, Joe Polcari wrote: strace /home/moder8/bin/entities Joe, Thanks for your suggestion: here's the output. moder8@telecom:~$ strace /home/moder8/bin/entities /var/www/html/archives/back.issues/recent.single.issues/I125 execve(/home/moder8/bin/entities,

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-07-29 Thread Tom Metro
Bill Horne wrote: moder8@telecom:~/bin$ ls -lh /home/moder8/bin/entities -rwxrwxr-x 1 moder8 telecom 8.8K Jan 27 2012 /home/moder8/bin/entities moder8@telecom:~$ strace /home/moder8/bin/entities /var/www/html/archives/back.issues/recent.single.issues/I125 execve(/home/moder8/bin/entities,

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-07-28 Thread Bill Ricker
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 11:18 PM, John Abreau j...@blu.org wrote: If it's just mapping html entities, it should be easy enough to recode it in perl or python. ​That script surely already exists​, ready for reuse in some CPAN or other archive? (But to be really helpful, it should detect

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-07-28 Thread Bill Horne
On 7/27/2014 11:18 PM, John Abreau wrote: Do they work on the old server but not on the new server? Or do they fail on the old server as well? No, they work on the old server, but fail on the new. I assume it's a permissions issue, but I can't figure out what might cause it. Bill -- E.

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-07-28 Thread Tom Metro
Bill Horne wrote: No, they work on the old server, but fail on the new. I assume it's a permissions issue, but I can't figure out what might cause it. % strace entities -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-07-27 Thread John Abreau
Do they work on the old server but not on the new server? Or do they fail on the old server as well? If they work on the old server, then you can run them on some sample input and compare the input with the output to see what is being changed. If it's just mapping html entities, it should be easy