Hello All,
I hope someone can help me out with this. I am running RH 9. Whenever I try to run a command I get and error saying "Cannot execute binary." Does anyone know that this is and how to fix it? Thanks for your help.

Check the permissions of the binary files by using "ls -l" command. I suspect that your user is not permitted to execute those binaries. In that case you will have to change the permissions of file using "chmod" command as super user.

I am getting the same error message too. However, if you did not have permission to execute a certain binary, you will simply get a permission denied message or something similar to that. A can not execute binay file error message could be something more serious. I know this does not help...sorry.

hey, ive got same problem too. im completely new to linux , im using ubuntu , what should i do?

Where is the binary located?
If it is in /tmp, or on the cdrom drive? If so, then the partition is mounted with the "noexec" option. Note that the "user" option, implies the "noexec" option.

Suppose that it is on /mnt/cdrom/program.
Change the directory outside the cdrom and try to execute it like:
>sh /mnt/cdrom/program

Another option, if the program is on the cdrom, is to change the mount options.
add the option "user" to the fstab entry or mount command.

Note that for security reasons, any partition that is world writable, should not allow execution. This is where someone could put a rootkit.

i compiles a asm file with nasm
a object file it produced but while doing ./ or sh it shows an erroe connot compile binary files

Thanks
Sanj

The nasm assembler cannot compile binary files when we use the command for eg: ./filename.o
Any suggestion with how will this work?

This filename.o file is still an object file and need to be linked

do:
ld filename.o -o filename

now you can execute it with ./filename

Guys, this thr started in 2004. Please start a brand new one instead of resurrecting this.