Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup
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. Sadly their engine does not search literal strings even when they say they do... they ignore the and the ; Still, it's a really good start at a very small haystack for finding the original source of this code. https://code.ohloh.net/search?s=%26pount Then I added the term brvbar in a compound search, but that turned up zero results - which means that this original source is not found in their database. On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 1:42 AM, Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com wrote: What's the big picture that you are trying to accomplish with the script? Presenting the Telecom Digest on a web site? Maybe an off-the-shelf mail archiving tool is a better way to go? (Like MHonArc.) Agreed, if you just want to put the Digest on the web, then I'd feed it to MHonArc, or similar. Out of curiosity, I looked at the MHonArc sources to see if there were such files (entities and fixup), but no. MHonArc is written in Perl. That said, there is quite a bit of code to deal with sanitizing or escaping content for conversion to HTML for display. To wit: http://www.mhonarc.org/release/MHonArc/latest/lib/mhtxtplain.pl http://www.mhonarc.org/release/MHonArc/latest/lib/mhtxtenrich.pl http://www.mhonarc.org/release/MHonArc/latest/lib/mhtxthtml.pl And, even with that, there is a big security warning on the homepage for yet another script injection vulnerability. That's because MHonArc doesn't fully parse the HTML, nor does it use a white-listing approach. Basically, with MHonArc, you should not enable HTML in your mail archives. Despite the obvious weakness of MHonArc, I'm simply pointing out the obvious that rolling your own solution that mimics MHonArc's feature set would be quite a project. What language is the script written in? 'fixup' remains a mystery, Fixup is a mystery, but at least one thing it probably did was deal with angle brackets and keywords. but you probably know enough about 'entities' to replace it with some in-line code. Greg gave you a PHP example. It could be done as a one-liner in Perl, with the assistance of a module. Greg Rundlett http://eQuality-Tech.com http://freephile.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup
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 working. I gather the script is custom and not from some project? My guess would be that these tools were borrowed from some other project. Probably a mail archiving tool. Some more searching might turn up their origin. I didn't see any mention of the name anywhere in this context. What's the big picture that you are trying to accomplish with the script? Presenting the Telecom Digest on a web site? Maybe an off-the-shelf mail archiving tool is a better way to go? (Like MHonArc.) AFAICT, it's intended to replace HTML reserved characters with HTML entities. Less-than becomes lt;, etc. What language is the script written in? 'fixup' remains a mystery, but you probably know enough about 'entities' to replace it with some in-line code. Greg gave you a PHP example. It could be done as a one-liner in Perl, with the assistance of a module. I don't know what language it was written in. I accepted help from a volunteer who installed several scripts, and this binary was in one of them. I'll try the PHP that Greg suggested, and rebuild the process. Bill -- E. William Horne William Warren Consulting 339-364-8487 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup
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 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 __gmon_start__ libc.so.6 _IO_stdin_used exit putchar stdin fgets stdout fputs strncasecmp fwrite __libc_start_main GLIBC_2.0 PTRh [^_] @(#) $Id: entities.c,v 1.4 2011/12/19 12:40:17 moder8 Exp $ nbsp; iexcl; cent; pount; curren; yen; brvbar; sect; uml; copy; ordf; laquo; not; shy; reg; macr; deg; plusmn; sup2; sup3; acute; micro; para; middot; cedil; sup1; ordm; raqu; frac14; frac12; frac34; iquest; Agrave; Aacute; Acirc; Atilde; Auml; Aring; AElig; Ccedil; Egrave; Eacute; Ecirc; Euml; Igrave; Iacute; Icirc; Iuml; ETH; Ntilde; Ograve; Oacute; Ocirc; Otilde; Ouml; times; Oslash; Ugrave; Uacute; Ucirc; Uuml; Yacute; THORN; szlig; agrave; aacute; acirc; atilde; auml; aring; aelig; ccedil; egrave; eacute; ecirc; euml; igrave; iacute; icrc; iuml; eth; ntilde; ograve; oacute; ocirc; otilde; ouml; divide; oslash; ugrave; uacute; ucirc; uuml; yacute; thorn; yuml; html quot; #39; lt; gt; amp; moder8@old-massis:~/rsi$ 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), dynamically linked (uses shared libs),\ for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, not stripped Now, the output of the strings commond on the new machine /lib/ld-linux.so.2 __gmon_start__ libc.so.6 _IO_stdin_used exit putchar stdin fgets stdout fputs strncasecmp fwrite __libc_start_main GLIBC_2.0 PTRh [^_] @(#) $Id: entities.c,v 1.4 2011/12/19 12:40:17 moder8 Exp $ nbsp; iexcl; cent; pount; curren; yen; brvbar; sect; uml; copy; ordf; laquo; not; shy; reg; macr; deg; plusmn; sup2; sup3; acute; micro; para; middot; cedil; sup1; ordm; raqu; frac14; frac12; frac34; iquest; Agrave; Aacute; Acirc; Atilde; Auml; Aring; AElig; Ccedil; Egrave; Eacute; Ecirc; Euml; Igrave; Iacute; Icirc; Iuml; ETH; Ntilde; Ograve; Oacute; Ocirc; Otilde; Ouml; times; Oslash; Ugrave; Uacute; Ucirc; Uuml; Yacute; THORN; szlig; agrave; aacute; acirc; atilde; auml; aring; aelig; ccedil; egrave; eacute; ecirc; euml; igrave; iacute; icrc; iuml; eth; ntilde; ograve; oacute; ocirc; otilde; ouml; divide; oslash; ugrave; uacute; ucirc; uuml; yacute; thorn; yuml; html quot; #39; lt; gt; amp; And, last, the output of the file command on the new machine: /home/moder8/bin/entities: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,\ version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs),\ for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, not stripped - - - - - - - HTH. Thanks for your time! Bill ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup
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 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 __gmon_start__ libc.so.6 _IO_stdin_used exit putchar stdin fgets stdout fputs strncasecmp fwrite __libc_start_main GLIBC_2.0 PTRh [^_] @(#) $Id: entities.c,v 1.4 2011/12/19 12:40:17 moder8 Exp $ nbsp; iexcl; cent; pount; curren; yen; brvbar; sect; uml; copy; ordf; laquo; not; shy; reg; macr; deg; plusmn; sup2; sup3; acute; micro; para; middot; cedil; sup1; ordm; raqu; frac14; frac12; frac34; iquest; Agrave; Aacute; Acirc; Atilde; Auml; Aring; AElig; Ccedil; Egrave; Eacute; Ecirc; Euml; Igrave; Iacute; Icirc; Iuml; ETH; Ntilde; Ograve; Oacute; Ocirc; Otilde; Ouml; times; Oslash; Ugrave; Uacute; Ucirc; Uuml; Yacute; THORN; szlig; agrave; aacute; acirc; atilde; auml; aring; aelig; ccedil; egrave; eacute; ecirc; euml; igrave; iacute; icrc; iuml; eth; ntilde; ograve; oacute; ocirc; otilde; ouml; divide; oslash; ugrave; uacute; ucirc; uuml; yacute; thorn; yuml; html quot; #39; lt; gt; amp; moder8@old-massis:~/rsi$ 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), dynamically linked (uses shared libs),\ for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, not stripped Now, the output of the strings commond on the new machine /lib/ld-linux.so.2 __gmon_start__ libc.so.6 _IO_stdin_used exit putchar stdin fgets stdout fputs strncasecmp fwrite __libc_start_main GLIBC_2.0 PTRh [^_] @(#) $Id: entities.c,v 1.4 2011/12/19 12:40:17 moder8 Exp $ nbsp; iexcl; cent; pount; curren; yen; brvbar; sect; uml; copy; ordf; laquo; not; shy; reg; macr; deg; plusmn; sup2; sup3; acute; micro; para; middot; cedil; sup1; ordm; raqu; frac14; frac12; frac34; iquest; Agrave; Aacute; Acirc; Atilde; Auml; Aring; AElig; Ccedil; Egrave; Eacute; Ecirc; Euml; Igrave; Iacute; Icirc; Iuml; ETH; Ntilde; Ograve; Oacute; Ocirc; Otilde; Ouml; times; Oslash; Ugrave; Uacute; Ucirc; Uuml; Yacute; THORN; szlig; agrave; aacute; acirc; atilde; auml; aring; aelig; ccedil; egrave; eacute; ecirc; euml; igrave; iacute; icrc; iuml; eth; ntilde; ograve; oacute; ocirc; otilde; ouml; divide; oslash; ugrave; uacute; ucirc; uuml; yacute; thorn; yuml; html quot; #39; lt; gt; amp; And, last, the output of the file command on the new machine: /home/moder8/bin/entities: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,\ version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs),\ for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, not stripped - - - - - - - HTH. Thanks for your time! Bill ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup
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), dynamically linked (uses shared libs),\ for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, not stripped So clearly you're dealing with a compiled binary. The RCS comment line captured by strings suggests C code. It could be failing to run on the new machine due to an architecture mismatch (different CPU family, 64-bit vs. 32-bit), or due to missing dynamically linked libraries: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 libc.so.6 (Though the error message is usually more helpful in either of those cases.) One answer is to rebuild entities.c, if you have the source, but if you did, you probably wouldn't have started this thread. Some trial-and-error might get them running on the new machine by pulling in the necessary dynamic libraries, but that's not a great solution. It just defers the headache until your next server move. 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 working. I gather the script is custom and not from some project? My guess would be that these tools were borrowed from some other project. Probably a mail archiving tool. Some more searching might turn up their origin. What's the big picture that you are trying to accomplish with the script? Presenting the Telecom Digest on a web site? Maybe an off-the-shelf mail archiving tool is a better way to go? (Like MHonArc.) What language is the script written in? 'fixup' remains a mystery, but you probably know enough about 'entities' to replace it with some in-line code. Greg gave you a PHP example. It could be done as a one-liner in Perl, with the assistance of a module. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup
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
script's author isn't available, and neither is working.
AFAICT, entities is supposed to replace ASCII characters with HTML
Entities where needed, and I don't know what fixup is supposed to do.
[replying to all this time]
Here is a PHP function that could help you replace the 'entities' binary
/**
* Replaces ampersands with html entity, making it safe for XML
* use lookahead assertion that the ampersand is not followed by an
optional hash, one or more
* word characters and a semicolon. In other words, it WILL match if it's
a bare ampersand,
* such as in the string HR Block but
* will leave friendly entities like quot; or #213; alone
* @see http://www.php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.assertions.php
* @param string $message
* @return string
*/
function entitySafe($message)
{
return preg_replace('/(?!#?\w+;)/', 'amp;', $message);
}
Greg Rundlett
http://eQuality-Tech.com http://equality-tech.com/
http://freephile.org
___
Discuss mailing list
Discuss@blu.org
http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup
On 7/29/2014 6:06 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
Bill Horne wrote:
moder8@telecom:~/bin$ 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
/var/www/html/archives/back.issues/recent.single.issues/I125
execve(/home/moder8/bin/entities, [/home/moder8/bin/entities,
/var/www/html/archives/back.issu...], [/* 21 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, strace: exec: No such file or di..., 40strace: exec: No such file or
directory
) = 40
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, but
the error message is not right for that.
Actually, that might be it:
% touch foo
% chmod u+x foo
% echo #\!/bin/bogus foo
fringe:/tmp% strace ./foo
execve(./foo, [./foo], [/* 54 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
[...]
write(3, strace: exec: No such file or di..., 40strace: exec: No such
file or directory
) = 40
It's a misleading error message. The No such file is not referring to
./foo, but to the specified interpreter, /bin/bogus, but because the
bang-path magic is embedded in execve(), and it only returns an error
code (it doesn't generate the error message to STDERR), you're left with
a generic error and no object being identified.
I assume the above was on the new server. What happens when you strace
it on the old server?
-Tom
Tom,
I ran the entities binary on the old machine, and I've pasted the
output here: I125 is a standard MBOX-format email file, with a single
issue of The Telecom Digest in it. It works as expected.
moder8@old-massis:/tmp$ strace -o/tmp/strace_out2.txt
/home/moder8/bin/entities I125
execve(/home/moder8/bin/entities, [/home/moder8/bin/entities], [/*
20 vars */]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x8749000
access(/etc/ld.so.nohwcap, F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
mmap2(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0xb77df000
access(/etc/ld.so.preload, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=23117, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 23117, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb77d9000
close(3)= 0
access(/etc/ld.so.nohwcap, F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open(/lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3,
\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\0n\1\0004\0\0\0...,
512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1327556, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 1337704, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3,
0) = 0xb7692000
mprotect(0xb77d2000, 4096, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap2(0xb77d3000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x140) = 0xb77d3000
mmap2(0xb77d6000, 10600, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb77d6000
close(3)= 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0xb7691000
set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 - 6, base_addr:0xb76916c0,
limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0,
limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0
mprotect(0xb77d3000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0xb77fd000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
munmap(0xb77d9000, 23117) = 0
fstat64(0, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0666, st_size=3174, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0xb77de000
read(0, From telecom-owner+DV033N00125=b..., 4096) = 3174
fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0xb77dd000
write(1, From telecom-owner+DV033N00125=b..., 108) = 108
write(1, Return-path: lt;telecom-owner+D..., 99) = 99
write(1, Envelope-to: backups-digest@tele..., 46) = 46
write(1, Delivery-date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 ..., 47) = 47
write(1, Received: from listmail.iecc.com..., 50) = 50
write(1, \tby telecom.xen.prgmr.com with e..., 49) = 49
write(1, \t(envelope-from lt;telecom-owne..., 103) = 103
write(1, \tid 1XBIko-XY-Dp\n, 21) = 21
write(1, \tfor backups-digest@telecomdiges..., 71) = 71
write(1, Received: (qmail 62112 invoked b..., 72) = 72
write(1, DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha25..., 599) = 599
write(1, Content-Type: text/plain\n, 25) = 25
write(1, Content-Disposition: inline\n, 28) = 28
write(1, Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n, 32) = 32
write(1, MIME-Version: 1.0\n, 18) = 18
write(1, X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.505 (Enti..., 42) = 42
write(1, Subject: The Telecom Digest (1 m..., 41) = 41
write(1, From: telecom-owner@telecom-dige..., 39) = 39
write(1, To: tele...@telecom-digest.org\n, 31) = 31
write(1, Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 03:20:03 ..., 38) = 38
write(1, Reply-To: telecomdigestsubmissio..., 54) = 54
write(1, List-Help: lt;mailto:telecom-re;..., 94) = 94
write(1, Instructions)\n, 15)= 15
Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup
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 http://eQuality-Tech.com http://equality-tech.com/ http://freephile.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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 for the suggestion. Here's a log snippet that may make this issue more clear: 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:~/bin$ ls -lh /var/www/html/archives/back.issues/recent.single.issues/I125 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 3.1K Jul 28 11:12 /var/www/html/archives/back.issues/recent.single.issues/I125 moder8@telecom:~/bin$ strace ./entities /var/www/html/archives/back.issues/recent.single.issues/I125 execve(./entities, [./entities, /var/www/html/archives/back.issu...], [/* 22 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, strace: exec: No such file or di..., 40strace: exec: No such file or directory ) = 40 exit_group(1) = ? +++ exited with 1 +++ moder8@telecom:~/bin$ As you can see, the file entities shows up in an ls listing, but not when I try to run it by itself or with strace. Thanks for your help! -- E. William Horne William Warren Consulting 339-364-8487 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup
It appears you're in a different directory. Try: strace /home/moder8/bin/entities -Original Message- From: discuss-bounces+joe=polcari@blu.org [mailto:discuss-bounces+joe=polcari@blu.org] On Behalf Of Bill Horne Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 3:41 PM To: BLU Discussion List Subject: 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 for the suggestion. Here's a log snippet that may make this issue more clear: 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:~/bin$ ls -lh /var/www/html/archives/back.issues/recent.single.issues/I125 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 3.1K Jul 28 11:12 /var/www/html/archives/back.issues/recent.single.issues/I125 moder8@telecom:~/bin$ strace ./entities /var/www/html/archives/back.issues/recent.single.issues/I125 execve(./entities, [./entities, /var/www/html/archives/back.issu...], [/* 22 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, strace: exec: No such file or di..., 40strace: exec: No such file or directory ) = 40 exit_group(1) = ? +++ exited with 1 +++ moder8@telecom:~/bin$ As you can see, the file entities shows up in an ls listing, but not when I try to run it by itself or with strace. Thanks for your help! -- E. William Horne William Warren Consulting 339-364-8487 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup
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, [/home/moder8/bin/entities, /var/www/html/archives/back.issu...], [/* 21 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, strace: exec: No such file or di..., 40strace: exec: No such file or directory ) = 40 exit_group(1) = ? +++ exited with 1 +++ moder8@telecom:~$ pwd /home/moder8 Bill -- E. William Horne William Warren Consulting 339-364-8487 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup
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, [/home/moder8/bin/entities, /var/www/html/archives/back.issu...], [/* 21 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, strace: exec: No such file or di..., 40strace: exec: No such file or directory ) = 40 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, but the error message is not right for that. Actually, that might be it: % touch foo % chmod u+x foo % echo #\!/bin/bogus foo fringe:/tmp% strace ./foo execve(./foo, [./foo], [/* 54 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [...] write(3, strace: exec: No such file or di..., 40strace: exec: No such file or directory ) = 40 It's a misleading error message. The No such file is not referring to ./foo, but to the specified interpreter, /bin/bogus, but because the bang-path magic is embedded in execve(), and it only returns an error code (it doesn't generate the error message to STDERR), you're left with a generic error and no object being identified. I assume the above was on the new server. What happens when you strace it on the old server? -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup
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 MACscii and convert that too.) -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup
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. William Horne William Warren Consulting 339-364-8487 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup
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/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup
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 enough to recode it in perl or python. 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 script's author isn't available, and neither is working. AFAICT, entities is supposed to replace ASCII characters with HTML Entities where needed, and I don't know what fixup is supposed to do. All suggestions welcome. Bill -- E. William Horne William Warren Consulting 339-364-8487 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux Unix Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / 2013 PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 2013 / ID 0x920063C6 / FP A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 2011 / ID 0x32A492D8 / FP 7834 AEC2 EFA3 565C A4B6 9BA4 0ACB AD85 32A4 92D8 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
