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Re: UNIX vs Linux

From: Nolan Luu <Nolan.Luu_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:51:55 -0700

Hi Wouter,

This is a known issue:
[Issue 5191] Installer self-extracting wrapper is using obsolete tail
command parameters.

The workaround is to set _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in the environment
before performing the installation.

Regards,

-Nolan

Wouter van Reeven wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I decided to give build 20 a try. To do so, I downloaded the
> glassfish-v3-prelude-b20-unix.sh script and tried to run it on Debian. Running
> the script failed because of an invalid tail command. I found I had to modify it
> from
>
> tail +24l $0 > $tmp/tmp.jar
>
> to
>
> tail -n +24 $0 > $tmp/tmp.jar
>
> Would you like me to log this issue (possibly as RFE for Linux)?
>
>
> Greets, Wouter
>
>