BTW for those running Mac OS X with this head confusion, on 10.2.8 I'm seeing this kind of thing all over the place:


Rotating log files: system.logUnknown option: 1Usage: head [-options] <url>... -m <method> use method for the request (default is 'HEAD') -f make request even if head believes method is illegal


Including the boot sequence if you boot in verbose mode..

Cheers,

Jerry
On Sunday, Nov 23, 2003, at 21:04 Europe/Brussels, Jerry Rocteur wrote:

IC.. Thanks for that..

A UNIX system that is not case sensitive doesn't sound like a UNIX system to me.. I wonder what else Apple is going to change in UNIX, soon we'll be cd \etc\httpd

I apologize to the wonderful Perl people for thinking something naughty about them when all along it is Apple.

Thanks for the prompt answer.. I just moved the perl head elsewhere... But I'm sure that will break things..

BTW, does anyone recommend something different than HFS+ to avoid this very annoying thingy ?

Thanks Apple.

Jerry

On Sunday, Nov 23, 2003, at 20:43 Europe/Brussels, Doug McNutt wrote:

At 20:20 +0100 11/23/03, Jerry Rocteur wrote:
Why would a Perl Module installation wipe out a standard UNIX program 'head' with a head Perl script which is completely unrelated to the real 'head' ??

In the old days there was a problem with "head" and "HEAD". The perl installer was accustomed to a case sensitive file system which Apple's HFS+ is not.


I thought is was fixed but . . .

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