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?
It turned out to be a file size problem I used firefox to download the file over http first, then ftp. Both downloads resulted in the same size file.
This time I used command line ftp and the resulting download was a larger file, which opened without issue using
#gzip -dc filename | tar -xvf -
thanks for helping -- regards,
shane
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