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!)
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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz