>> >> script headers: /local/etc/httpd/htdocs/shopzone/jmw/cgi-bin/wwwinstall.cgi
>> >
>> >That a near-useless error. I hate it when I get that error in my logs.
>> 
>> well...it indicates that the script is borked.
>
>Not quite. It is possible for the script to be fine and something else
>along the way got smashed. For example, if suexec is used and suexec
>bails then the script might be fine but if you try to access it on the
>web you get the above "near-useless" error. (I had just that happen
>about a week or two ago.)

i read it as "the script is broken".  which is about as much as we
started with.  :)

>> >> canal.iaw.on.ca:/webpage/shopzone/jmw/cgi-bin# ldd wwwinstall.cgi
>> >> ldd: wwwinstall.cgi: not a dynamic executable
>> >> canal.iaw.on.ca:/webpage/shopzone/jmw/cgi-bin#
>> >
>> >Well, that tells you something.
>> 
>> it suggests to me that wwwinstall.cgi is a perl program, but then
>> again, i'm being very solicitous in my guessing.  did perl not get
>> re-installed?  or lost in the install?
>
>Wait, hold on a second.

hmm?  yes?

>That error message is only found in /usr/src/usr.bin/ldd/ldd_aout/ldd.c,
>and my 1.4.1 install of i386 is ELF. 

well, yes...but

% echo foo > bar
% ldd bar
ldd: bar: not a dynamic executable

you can get it out of just about anything.

>Is it possible the executable got trashed in the process of doing the
>install?

"the"?  you mean perl or some other executable?  i guess it could be
just a missing compat_13 or some such...

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