[ale] Re: Installing j2se on RHEL 3?

[Michael Hirsch]

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.

Michael

> > --mdh
> >
> > 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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> Until later, Geoffrey
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