Public bug reported:
While running nginx install/upgrade tests, I was trying to get the last
10 lines of the /var/log/apt/history.log file. Naturally, I was trying
to use 'tail' for this:
tail -n 10 /var/log/apt/history.log
Instead of only getting the last 10 lines of the file, I get the entire
file spit out to me, as if I used 'cat' instead of 'tail'. This would
appear to be a MAJOR problem if tail no longer functions as it should.
This is on a fully-updated 16.10 server, by the way, so all the updates
from the 'yakkety' repository are pulled in.
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: coreutils 8.25-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jul 19 13:39:31 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-14 (65 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha amd64 (20160514)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=linux
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: coreutils
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: coreutils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Invalid
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug yakkety
** Description changed:
While running nginx install/upgrade tests, I was trying to get the last
10 lines of the /var/log/apt/history.log file. Naturally, I was trying
to use 'tail' for this:
tail -n 10 /var/log/apt/history.log
Instead of only getting the last 10 lines of the file, I get the entire
file spit out to me, as if I used 'cat' instead of 'tail'. This would
appear to be a MAJOR problem if tail no longer functions as it should.
+
+ This is on a fully-updated 16.10 server, by the way, so all the updates
+ from the 'yakkety' repository are pulled in.
+
+ ------
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: coreutils 8.25-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jul 19 13:39:31 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-14 (65 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha amd64 (20160514)
ProcEnviron:
- TERM=linux
- PATH=(custom, no user)
- XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
- LANG=en_US.UTF-8
- SHELL=/bin/bash
+ TERM=linux
+ PATH=(custom, no user)
+ XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
+ LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+ SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: coreutils
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Invalid
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`tail -n N` no longer functions, prints all data in specified files
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