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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: problems with qpopper
Date: 8 Jun 1996 12:37:23 +0100
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Darrin R. Woods (dwoods@wordspict.com) wrote:

: Jun  5 15:21:05 babs inetd[7283]: cannot execute /usr/libexec/popper: Exec
: format error

What happens when you run it from the command line ?  What does 'file'
say ?  I suspect you've got dodgy executables - maybe they're gzip'd
and you havn't got gzip support in your kernel ?

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....