what program to use to upack log files ?

[Diep Pham]

On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 09:40:00 +0100
robert <robert at redcor.ch> wrote:

> 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

Just install atool package and use aunpack command to unpack every
archive file type.

FYI, you can use less to directly read *.gz file.