George Fletcher <geflet@not-for-mail.net> wrote:
> Gold ol' Linux, bad ol' Posix. This time FC5 has broken my shell scripts by
> redefining the flags for the 'tail' command. Most notably, by deleting the
> second most used flag '+#', used to concatenate a file beginning at line #.

Is there anything preventing you from replacing that tail(1) with one that
works for you? At work, I have to live with RedHat, while my operating system
of choice is FreeBSD and the Linux I consider the least annoying is Slackware
(busybox doesn't really count). It took me a while to make RedHat mostly
behaved but since I've got it set up the way I want to, I've found more useful
things to complain about.

Thank $deity for POSIX! It means I can run all the software I run on other
Unixes on Linux too - no matter how hard "distribution X" tries to make it for
me.

See my blog rant on the topic:

<http://www.paeps.cx/weblog/2006/Jan/03/>

> Are there any systems administrators of more than 19 years old who work a
> Redhat or on Posix braindead "specifications"?

I'm sure there are.

- Philip

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