what program to use to upack log files ?

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On 2015-03-03 09:40, robert 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

You may not even need to unpack, depending on how attached you are to 
using particular software to view the log files.

In a terminal you can use "zless mail.log.3.gz" to view it without first 
unpacking.

There may be a similar gui solution that I'm not aware of.

Best regards,
Patrick