On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, shane c branch wrote: > I just downloaded pmfirewall to install on my RH9 server. However, I am > not able to open the tar.gz file. > > I did the following: > > #gzip -dc filename.tar.gz | tar -xvf - > > that usually extracts the file into a directory of the same name, but > i'm getting an error saying that the file is not in gzip format. > > I also tried > > #tar -zvxf filename.tar.gz > > and had a similar failure. > > I next suspect that the file i downloaded was corruped or incomplete but > downloading it a second time did not fix the problem. > > What am I missing here? Maybe you downloaded it in ASCII mode instead of binary? -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
