On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 03:08:20PM -0800, Anthony Valentine wrote: > In the processes of upgrading Amanda, I decided to upgrade GNU Tar as > well. I found this in the READ for tar 1.3.25: > > If you see the following symptoms: > > $ tar -xzf file.tar.gz > gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored > tar: Child returned status 2 > > then you have encountered a gzip incompatibility that > should be fixed in gzip test version 1.3, which as of > this writing is available at > <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/>. You can work around > the incompatibility by using a shell command like > `gzip -d <file.tar.gz | tar -xzf -'. > > > Unfortunately, /gnu/gzip doesn't exist on that server so I have to go > find gzip 1.3 elsewhere. If anyone know where I can get it, please let > me know. > > Anthony Valentine
Did you look at www.gzip.org? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Seattle, WA 98155-0549 URL http://www.linuxjournal.com/ -----------------------------------------------------------------
