Re: fileinfo problems

When you used the 2nd argument, did you specify path to the magic or magic.mime file? In the event of the latter, try specifying the path to the magic file. Ilia On May 26, 2004 11:16 am, Gareth Ardron wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:43:31AM -0400, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > > If you've upgraded the library after installing fileinfo it is likely > > that the new magic file is not inside etc. If that is indeed the case you > > either need to recompile fileinfo (which will try to locate the best > > magic file during configure) or specify the path to the file as the 2nd > > parameter to finfo() or finfo_open(). > > Nope. Been through and done all that already. > > It's debian, so by default stuff ends up in /usr/share/misc/files. I've > tried copying stuff out from this to /etc/magic and using the second > argument to point to the relevant magic.mime files in /usr/share/... but > still nothing. Like I say, permissions and all the obvious junk seems right > and has been double checked - it just doesn't like my copy of the magic > file. > > I should point out that I have exactly this same issue with mime_magic > extension as well, where it says that the magic file is invalid. > > Cheers