[lug] Re: Installing j2se on RHEL 3?

[Hugh Brown]

tail -1 works fine on my RHEL3 box

Hugh

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Michael Hirsch wrote:

> Correction.  All references to "less" should have been "tail".  RHEL 3
> has a broken tail. ;-)
>
> Michae
>
> On 5/24/05, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone tried this lately?  Sun ships an executable shell script
> > that extracts an RPM from itself, then you are supposed to install the
> > RPM.  Unfortunately, RHEL3 has a broken version of less which doesn't
> > accept the -1 or +511 parameters, so the shell script broke.  (These
> > are deprecated switches that RH in its wisdom decided to remove, thus
> > breaking lots of old shell scripts.)
> >
> > I was able to figure out the script and extracted the RPM by hand, but
> > the RPM itself has a shell script the uses "less -1" and it wouldn't
> > install.
> >
> > I have found no reference to this on google.  Can it really be that no
> > one else has this problem?
> >
> > Michael
> >
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