[ale] Re: Installing j2se on RHEL 3?

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Michael Hirsch wrote:
> On 5/24/05, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> 
>>Michael Hirsch wrote:
>>
>>>Correction:  All references to "less" should have been "tail".  RHEL 3
>>>has a broken tail ;-)
>>
>>Then that functionality is not your problem as 'tail' supports both '-'
>>and '+' switches.
> 
> 
> I hate to disagree with you, but have you tried RHEL 3 lately?  It has
> been removed on my version.

That's quite interesting.  I'm on RHEL 4 now, but just upgraded to 4 
from 3 when 4 came out and I'd swear that at least tail -1 worked.  RHEL 
4 does accept both '-' and '+' switches though.

I'm wondering if there are multiple versions of 'tail' and it's finding 
the wrong one.  Or, is 'tail' aliased to something else.

What does 'type tail' return?

How about 'rpm -qf $(type tail|awk '{print $NF}')' ?

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Until later, Geoffrey