MailScanner install failed on a "tail"

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Sep 2 14:34:10 IST 2004


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However, not all "tail"s support "-n". Only very fussy builds of tail (e.g.
on Gentoo apparently) don't support the "-1" syntax, everyone else does.

At 13:56 02/09/2004, you wrote:
>A quick search/replace in the install.tar-fns.sh script   "  %s/tail -
>1/tail -n -1/g  "and re-ran the install.sh.
>
>Version of "tail" I'm running is:  5.2.1
>tail: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1'

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