tail -f /etc/sysctl.conf /etc/sysconfig/* ==> /etc/sysconfig/static-routes <== tail: tail.c:718: recheck: Assertion `valid_file_spec (f)' failed. Aborted (core dumped) [root@localhost /root]# file /etc/sysconfig/static-routes /etc/sysconfig/static-routes: EMPTY file Then I used pico to put one blank line into the file /etc/sysconfig/static-routes: ASCII text tail still crashes. It shouldn't do this for an emtpy file, esp. after I tell it that it is an ASCII text file with a blank line. Joshua
Here's a smaller test case that demonstrates the real problem: tail -f /
This is fixed in <URL:ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/textutils-2.0e.tar.gz>.