<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 March 2015 at 10:40, robert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert@redcor.ch" target="_blank">robert@redcor.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi there,<br>
this sounds stupid but ..<br>
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I am not able to unpack archives that have been created by the ubuntu log schedular.<br>
At leas not in a bash shell.<br>
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root@salome:~/tmp# tar xvfz mail.log.3.gz<br>
tar: This does not look like a tar archive<br>
tar: Skipping to next header<br>
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors<br>
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however, using file-roller, I can ..<br>
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what is the correct syntax/programm to use for the job?<br>
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thanks<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
robert<br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>gzip -df <file name></div></div></div></div>