Paul Eggert wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > $ tail --version > > tail (textutils) 2.0.21 > > That's a fairly old version. I have no problem with the coreutils 5.0 > tail on Debian:
I have definitely used 2.0.21 on large files previously. While old I don't think that is the root cause of the problem. I suspect that if it were analyzed completely it would be found that that particular compilation was compiled without large files support. The newer autoconf is much better at detecting this than the older version used at that time. In the old days you had to tell configure how to enable large file support. This is really not an issue for tail so much as it is for the operating system and the compiler. If that version was compiled from source then recompiling it with large file support should enable this functionality if your operating system also supports large files. But since it is so old I agree with Paul that your best action is to update to the current coreutils. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
