 | | | pmfirewall? | pmfirewall? 2004-03-04 - By Shane C Branch
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Ajai Khattri wrote:
> 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?
>
I don't think so. I used an http link to download it and when i sent it
up to my server via ftp. I did type 'bin' before doing the transfer, or
at least I thought I had. I just double checked it, making sure change
to 'bin' before uploading.
I get the same result.
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regards,
shane
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