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[Nicolas B. <nic...@pl...>]

Hello

I am installing genex server 1.0.4 on MacOSX10.1. The installation 
script stalls while checking tail. I was wondering if anybody had such 
problems.


This a snapshot of the installation screen:
[...]
Testing for a GNU [tail] ...
Unknown option: 1
Usage: head [-options] <url>...
     -m <method>   use method for the request (default is 'HEAD')
     -f            make request even if head believes method is illegal
     -b <base>     Use the specified URL as base
     -t <timeout>  Set timeout value
     -i <time>     Set the If-Modified-Since header on the request
     -c <conttype> use this content-type for POST, PUT, CHECKIN
     -a            Use text mode for content I/O
     -p <proxyurl> use this as a proxy
     -P            don't load proxy settings from environment
     -H <header>   send this HTTP header (you can specify several)

     -u            Display method and URL before any response
     -U            Display request headers (implies -u)
     -s            Display response status code
     -S            Display response status chain
     -e            Display response headers
     -d            Do not display content
     -o <format>   Process HTML content in various ways

     -v            Show program version
     -h            Print this message

     -x            Extra debugging output
Ugh!  What gibberish!
The [tail] you have certainly does not taste like GNU [tail].  If you 
have
a GNU [tail] stashed somewhere in your system, tell me its path below;
otherwise cancel (^C) this installation, get a recent version of it from
ftp://www.fsf.org/gnu/textutils/
compile & install it, then try this installation again.
[/usr/bin/tail] ?

The man page for version of tail installed is as follows:
[localhost:local/bin/xgobi] nicolasb% man tail
man: Formatting manual page...

TAIL(1)                     System Reference Manual                    
TAIL(1)

NAME
      tail - display the last part of a file

SYNOPSIS
      tail [-f | -F | -r] [-b number | -c number | -n number] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION
      The tail utility displays the contents of file or, by default, its 
stan-
      dard input, to the standard output.

      The display begins at a byte, line or 512-byte block location in 
the in-
      put.  Numbers having a leading plus (``+'') sign are relative to 
the be-
      ginning of the input, for example, ``-c +2'' starts the display at 
the
      second byte of the input.  Numbers having a leading minus (``-'') 
sign or
      no explicit sign are relative to the end of the input, for 
example, ``-n
      2'' displays the last two lines of the input.  The default starting 
loca-
      tion is ``-n 10'', or the last 10 lines of the input.

      The options are as follows:

      -b number
              The location is number 512-byte blocks.

      -c number
              The location is number bytes.

      -f      The -f option causes tail to not stop when end of file is
              reached, but rather to wait for additional data to be 
appended to
              the input.  The -f option is ignored if the standard input 
is a
              pipe, but not if it is a FIFO.

      -F      The -F option is the same as the -f option, except that 
every
              five seconds tail will check to see if the file named on 
the com-
              mand line has been shortened or moved (it is considered 
moved if
              the inode or device number changes) and, if so, it will 
close the
              current file, open the filename given, print out the entire 
con-
              tents, and continue to wait for more data to be appended.  
This
              option is used to follow log files though rotation by 
newsys-
              log(8) or similar programs.

      -n number
              The location is number lines.

      -r      The -r option causes the input to be displayed in reverse 
order,
              by line.  Additionally, this option changes the meaning of 
the
              -b, -c and -n options.  When the -r option is specified, 
these
              options specify the number of bytes, lines or 512-byte 
blocks to
              display, instead of the bytes, lines or blocks from the 
beginning
              or end of the input from which to begin the display.  The 
default
              for the -r option is to display all of the input.

      If more than a single file is specified, each file is preceded by a 
head-
      er consisting of the string ``==> XXX <=='' where ``XXX'' is the 
name of
      the file.

      The tail utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

BUGS
      When using the -F option, tail will not detect a file truncation 
if, be-
      tween the truncation and the next check of the file size, data 
written to
      the file make it larger than the last known file size.

SEE ALSO
      cat(1),  head(1),  sed(1)

STANDARDS
      The tail utility is expected to be a superset of the  
specification.  In
      particular, the -b, -r and -F options are extensions to that 
standard.

      The historic command line syntax of tail is supported by this 
implementa-
      tion.  The only difference between this implementation and historic 
ver-
      sions of , once the command line syntax translation has been done, 
is
      that the -b, -c and -n options modify the -r option, i.e. ``-r -c 
4''
      displays the last 4 characters of the last line of the input, while 
the
      historic tail (using the historic syntax ``-4cr'') would ignore 
the -c
      option and display the last 4 lines of the input.

HISTORY
      A tail command appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.

4th Berkeley Distribution        June 6, 
1993                                2


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Nicolas Bertrand
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Oxford
Oxford OX1 3RB

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