Originally posted by: vbalaji11

Hi all,

I have been trying to install XAMPP 1.8.1 on AIX 7.

Using gunzip and tar, I was able to extract them.

In lampp/bin/, I could see all files related to mysql and other components under  " XAMPP " package.

But, when I try to execute any of the files

I am getting the following error

./mysql.server: /opt/lampp/bin/my_print_defaults: 0403-006 Execute permission denied.

I execute commands as root & All the files are having 755 access permissions.

Thanks in advance : ) ..

Originally posted by: GarlandJoseph

We need more context here.  What is a single command that you are running that results in this error? Is the "command" a binary executable or a script? What are the permissions of  mysql.server? What are the permissions of /opt/lampp/bin/my_print_defaults.  If these are scripts, try running with set -x and temporarily modify the scripts to include this verbose option so that you can see the actual execution line where "execute permission denied" happens.

Originally posted by: vbalaji11

Thanks for your time and response.

mysql.server      execute permission denied            link to a shell script

my_print_defaults  ==  ELF 32-bit LSB version 1 executable 80386

" If these are scripts, try running with set -x and temporarily modify the scripts to include this verbose option so that you can see the actual execution line where "execute permission denied" happens. "

I am not familiar with set -x command. Could you also guide me as How I should modify the script file [ mysql.server / my_print_defaults ] to see where the error is actually happening.

Thanks,

Balaji V

Originally posted by: BalaAix

Hi,

you can debug script using below command. .

bash -x mysql.server

It seems to be permission issue. Your script owner is user1 and my_print_defaults owner is root. So please change owner of mysql.server, /share/mysql/mysql.server owner to root

chown -R rooot:system mysql.server

chown -R rooot:system ./share/mysql/mysql.server

Please let me know if his helps you.

Regards,

Balasaheb

Originally posted by: vbalaji11

Dear Bala,

Thanks for your suggestion. I will try the same and get back soon this day.

:)

Originally posted by: MattDulson

You might want to check that you've got the AIX version of the binaries.

The description of the file you gave stated "ELF 32-bit LSB version 1 executable 80386"

I would expect the output to say "executable (RISC System/6000) or object module"

Originally posted by: vbalaji11

Hi Matt,

So is it likely that, my AIX doesnt know how to execute this particular type / kind of "ELF 32-bit LSB version 1 executable 80386" binary file.

Actually, Xampp comes in flavours as here . I was giving a try, whether linux version would be working fine on AIX for a server and db, [ apache and mysql ].

I couldnt really use xampp in aix, and went on with mysql and apache tomcat and working fine.

I liked to know the real cause of the error. Thanks every one for you kind help :)

Originally posted by: Wouter Liefting

The file you're looking at is compiled for the 80386 architecture, and is in an ELF format for LSB version 1. ELF = Executable and Linkable Format, and LSB = Linux Standards Base.

So all the individual machine instructions in there are for the 80386 (and higher) microprocessor, which is produced by Intel. Which is totally different from the individual machine instruction set available on IBMs Power architecture. Furthermore, even if you could run the binary on the Power platform, since the file conforms to a Linux standard for executables, it is pretty likely that AIX wouldn't know how to load and start the executable, how to determine which shared libraries are needed and so on.

It's like trying to put a square peg in a round hole. it just isn't going to work. You might as well try and get Windows programs running on AIX.

Anyway, I went over to the XAMPP website and they claim it's under the GPL. At least, the collection is, because individual components may be under other Open Source licences. This means that the scripts and everything you need to create an XAMPP distribution should be available in source code form. Which you can compile/run yourself under AIX, so that you can create your own installable XAMPP distribution. It won't be easy, but it's the only way to do things, other than convincing the XAMPP team to create and maintain an AIX distribution.

Or you can simply download and install the individual components. Quite a few of them will already be available on the AIX Toolkit for Linux DVD.

Originally posted by: vbalaji11

Thanks Wouter,

Your answer added more clarification.