[ale] Re: Installing j2se on RHEL 3?

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Tue May 24 21:26:29 EDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 21:03 -0400, Joe Steele wrote:

> I think this behavior is controllable.  A vanilla version of tail (from GNU
> coreutils-5.2.1) can be forced to exhibit the 'obsolete' behavior if the
> environment contains the variable '_POSIX2_VERSION' set to some value less
> than 200112.
> 
> I don't know about RHEL, but FC3 uses a modified tail command so that the
> only way to get the 'new' behavior is to define '_POSIX2_VERSION' >= 200112
> and also define POSIXLY_CORRECT in the environment.
>  
> To get the 'obsolete' behavior, I'd suggest trying:
> export _POSIX2_VERSION=199209

You have just been awarded "Guru cum laude" of environment variables!!
Where did you find that info?

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