Re: Extracting snortrules-2931.tar.gz

[Jeremy Hoel <jthoel () gmail com>]

You never got back to me about the size of the file and if the file
was complete.

the error makes it sound like it's not a tar.gz file.

you need to very you got the whole file and that it's not just a text error.

run 'file snortrules-2931.tar.gz' and see what it says.

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Akinwale Fasuru <fashman2k1 () yahoo com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>  I am still having problems extracting snortrules-2931.tar.gz
>
> tar -xzvf snortrules-2931.tar.gz
> > I get this erro message
> >
> > zip: stdin: not in gzip format
> >
> > tar: Child returned status 1
> >
> > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
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