how to make binaries execute...?

[Stefan Bruda]

At 14:35 -0800 on 2003-1-15 Jon wrote:
 >
 > Enter in:
 > 
 > head <filename>
 > at the command prompt.

Alternatively, do

   file <filename>

which should say something about your file being "ELF 32-bit MSB
executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500."  However, it would appear that
your file executes already and forks something (this is usually the
meaning of "process ID: 14345").  Launch it and do a 

   ps ax | grep 14345

(change 14345 with the actual number that is printed) and if the
output shows some other line than the one reading "grep 14345" then
you do have a process running.  What to do with it is another matter,
you know better what the thing does (or is supposed to do).

Stefan

-- 
If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as
it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
    --Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass