On 9/4/2015 12:13 PM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Years ago the recommended way to install Sun's java was to install from > the tar.gz file because the RPM they supplied did some bad things > (clobbered other files or something...can't remember the details). Is > this still the case with Oracle's java RPM, or is it now safe to > install? we're happy using the RHEL/CentOS provided OpenJDK 6 or 7, all our j2se stuff just works.... ok, we had one anomaly relating to figuring out the local time zone, long story short, the lowest impact fix was for root to # echo "America/Los_Angeles" > /etc/timezone (using your local canonical timezone name, of course!) -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz