Hi. I'm using a Red Hat Linux 6.2 system. When I give "tail -f" an argument that's a directory, it dumps core: $ tail --version tail (GNU textutils) 2.0a Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Ian Lance Taylor, and Jim Meyering. Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. $ uname -a Linux jpeek.com 2.2.14-5.0 #1 Tue Mar 7 21:07:39 EST 2000 i686 unknown $ tail -f . tail: .: Is a directory tail: tail.c:718: recheck: Assertion `valid_file_spec (f)' failed. Aborted (core dumped) --Jerry Peek [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
