Hello, You've written on your page that if I have a problem I can report to thi address, so here you go: after downloading samba-2.2.0.tar.gz from your website I execute tar zxvf samba-2.2.0.tar.gz andhere's what I get: gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors What the hell do I do wrong? I't a gzip isn't it? Sincerelly Grzegorz Galazka ggalazka@if.pw.edu.pl
Grzegorz Galazka wrote:> > Hello, > You've written on your page that if I have a problem I can report > to thi address, so here you go: > after downloading samba-2.2.0.tar.gz from your website I execute tar zxvf > samba-2.2.0.tar.gz andhere's what I get: > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > What the hell do I do wrong? I't a gzip isn't it? > > Sincerelly > Grzegorz Galazka > ggalazka@if.pw.edu.pl >How big is the file? If its more like 30MB than 5, then your browser probably unziped it for you. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett abartlet@pcug.org.au
It could already be un-gzipped, or it could have been compressed with other than gzip. You are absolutely sure the filename ends in .gz? Not .z or .bz2 or other? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grzegorz Galazka" <ggalazka@if.pw.edu.pl> To: <samba@samba.org> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 4:35 AM Subject: gzip> Hello, > You've written on your page that if I have a problem I can report > to thi address, so here you go: > after downloading samba-2.2.0.tar.gz from your website I execute tar zxvf > samba-2.2.0.tar.gz andhere's what I get: > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > What the hell do I do wrong? I't a gzip isn't it? > > Sincerelly > Grzegorz Galazka > ggalazka@if.pw.edu.pl > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
Grzegorz Galazka wrote:> > Hello, > You've written on your page that if I have a problem I can report > to thi address, so here you go: > after downloading samba-2.2.0.tar.gz from your website I execute tar zxvf > samba-2.2.0.tar.gz andhere's what I get: > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > What the hell do I do wrong? I't a gzip isn't it? >Some versions of tar also do not support gzip with the z parameter. Try gzip -cd samba-2.2.0.tar.gz | tar xvf - instead Eddie