 | | | pmfirewall? [solved] | pmfirewall? [solved] 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?
>
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
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regards,
shane
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