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[Ian Scott <mriscott AT yahoo.co.uk>]

> > Do you have an e3pi that you got when you compiled and if so 
> > please try it out without tail, or with busybox tail in the 
> > right place (linked), thanks.  
> 
> I've already done that (temporarily removed tail from my system)
> and my e3pi worked fine.  
> 
> > e3pi (the one I compiled)
> > /usr/bin/tail:  Not a directory
> > gzip:  stdin:  unexpected end of file
> > Cannot decompress usr/local/bin/e3pi
> 

Aha - this is saying that /usr/bin/tail is not a directory (which it isn't,
it's an executable).

What happens if you delete the tail in /usr/bin and try mkdir /usr/bin/tail.

Perhaps e3pi is doing something wierd like using /usr/bin/tail/ as a directory
to store stuff in ??????  Seems wierd, but that's what the error message
looks like.