what program to use to upack log files ?

[John Mok]

Try use gunzip mail.log.3.gz

tar zxf only works for files created by tar zcf

Regards, John Mok
 On Mar 3, 2015 4:41 PM, "robert" <robert at redcor.ch> wrote:

> Hi there,
> this sounds stupid but ..
>
> I am not able to unpack archives that have been created by the ubuntu log
> schedular.
> At leas not in a bash shell.
>
> root at salome:~/tmp# tar xvfz mail.log.3.gz
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>
>
> however, using file-roller, I can ..
>
> what is the correct syntax/programm to use for the job?
>
> thanks
> robert
>
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