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= ExecFormatError =

{{{
(8)Exec format error: exec of '...' failed
}}}

Usually this error message means one of two things:

 1. Your CGI script does not have a #! line
 2. Your CGI program is not a valid binary for the system

The first two bytes of a file are used to determine how to execute the file. If those two bytes are #!, something special happens: The rest of the line is treated as the path to an executable to run the rest of the file. If those two bytes are not #!, then the system assumes it's a binary file and tries to execute it that way.

== See Also ==

 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix) Shebang (Unix) -- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]