Matthew Pounsett wrote:
 >    Incidentally, what do people normally use to read compressed BackupPC log
 >    files?  The docs say they're compressed with zlib, and so does
 >    /usr/bin/file, but gzip can't read them.  
 >    Back in the day 'uncompress' probably would have done it (although that
 >    would be .Z, not .z), but uncompress seems to just be a link to gzip now,
 >    at least on Debian.  It took some searching but I eventually found
 >    zlib-flate which can do it ... but this seems like a rather obscure tool.

# sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat LOG.0.z

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paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 67.7 degrees)



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