tail emits warning: unrecognized file system type

Symptom tail when used on v6.5+ platforms will successfully open a file, but elicit a warning similar to: tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for ‘error_log’. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling Cause Older versions of tail, such as shipped with RHEL7.2, do not ship with a version of coreutils that properly detects…

Listening on ports

Overview Some applications require persistence to continue to run after a page view has concluded. Node.js or other backend socket/server pairs connect a front-end process, like a web page view, with a backend process such as data crunching. For such circumstances, clients with Developer+ packages may run daemons necessary for their web site to operate – please no…

Compiling programs

Overview Custom programs may be compiled on Developer+ accounts, which is also bundled with terminal access. Custom programs may be installed under /usr/local. Per-Language C/C++ For C/C++ applications, supplying a –prefix=/usr/local during ./configure, i.e. ./configure –prefix=/usr/local && make && make install. In particular, this is negotiated not by C itself, but rather make/gmake and autoconf applications that are used in…