binfmt problems

Hello all,

I am a windows developer for some years and I have started to learn some linux to run C#/mono apps. The problem that I am having is that I cannot run mono apps without first, typing "mono" first such as:

mono myapp.exe

I have tried following this article:

[Well I tried to post the link but the board will not let me post it util I have 3 posts]

but when trying to run:

modprobe binfmt

I get FATAL: Module binfmt not found.

Can anyone offer advice on how to solve this? LOL, I've been googling for about 4 hours now and cannot find a solution. At this point, I'm about to give up on mono because of the required "mono myapp.exe" requirement and use something else like FreePascal (I use delphi alot) but I'm doing a lot of work in C# lately and this fits.

I am running CentOS 4, BTW.

Thank you,

Lee

I'm no expert in mono, C# or anything like that, but why don't you use a simple shell script or alias to overcome your problem?

ie

#!/bin/bash
mono your_program

Then, you can run the program by just calling the name of the script.
For instance, if your program is called "test", you can make a script RunTest that runs it...

An alternative is using aliases, but I don't recommend it if you have plenty of programs:

alias prog="mono your_program"

Put that for instance in your profile or in your .bashrc (or whatever shell you prefer). It'll make you run "mono your_program" by just typing the command "prog".

I don't really see why you need a kernel module for a simple trick like this. But maybe that's just me...

Thanks for the suggestion. I should have been a bit more detailed. I am using the C# app within Asterisk dialplan and it needs to be able to call the application directly (from what I understand) so that it can communicate with the application through STDIN,STDOUT, etc.

Thanks again for the suggestions!

Lee

binfmt is the binary format extension module for the kernel. I had it on here when I installed fspot.

If this helps...

I would have thought it needs to say something like binfmt_misc rather
than just binfmt. Of course it MAY be part of the kernel rather than
a module on your system.


Cheers,
Tink

Any ideas on how to resolve this anyone?

Thx!

Hi,

On Fedora 10 binfmt is compiled into the kernel and so the module is not needed. You can check by running:
$ ls /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc

If you see something like:
register status

Then you are good to go.