Eric,

Instead of nfs mounting the SCO volume on Linux, you probably need to do an
ssh remote command execution.  ssh isn't easy to set up for this kind of
passwordless interaction, and you may have to use rsh (which is completely
insecure) instead for a variety of reasons.

So if your SCO machine is named 'scobox', your linux machine is named
'linuxbox', and your SCO command is like this:

/usr/local/bin/pcmiler blah parameter foo bar

You'll need to run something like this on your linux box:

ssh scobox /usr/local/bin/pcmiler blah parameter foo bar

Regardless of what else you do, I recommend:

1.  Installing ssh and sshd on both machines.  Other methods of logging in
remotely are insecure.
2.  Figuring out how to do remote commands with ssh (and maybe the insecure
rsh as well)

Hope this helps!

-glenn

Glenn Crocker
Netmud   http://www.netmud.com
913-451-7785, glenn@netmud.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Rossiter [mailto:rossiter@discoverynet.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 8:42 AM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: binary file
>
>
> Morning Americans,
>
> I'll try to explain this so it makes sense.
>
> On a SCO Unix OpenServer box we have PCMiler software installed.  There is
> an executable that you make calls to when running this software
> that returns
> mileage, etc.
>
> The web server runs on RH Linux 6.2.  We need to make requests for mileage
> from the Linux web box to the SCO box and then return said mileage
> parameters, etc.
>
> I thought I could mount the necessary directories (NFS) on the SCO box to
> the Linux box and then we could access and run the necessary programs and
> files as if the software was loaded on the Linux box. (yes? is my logic
> skewed?)
>
> However, when issuing the commands on the Linux box to run the necessary
> program (same as the commands run on the SCO box)  we receive the
> following:
>
> "/bin/bash:  Unable to execute binary file"
>
> Could someone, anyone clue me as to what is transpiring here??  I am at a
> lost.
>
> TIA,
>
> Eric
>
>
>