Try unpacking them this way: gunzip -c /path/to/libol-0.2.23.tar.gz | tar xvf - gunzip -c /path/to/syslog-ng-1.4.17.tar.gz | tar xvf - -----Original Message----- From: Douglas, Stuart [mailto:stuart.douglas@agt.com] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 3:15 PM To: Syslog-Ng@Lists. Balabit. Hu (E-mail) Subject: [syslog-ng]libol & syslog-ng tarballs error out Hello, I'm running RH 7.3 and am not able to install from the tarballs. I've downloaded and attempted this several times, and the results are always the same. When I do a 'tar zxvf' on either file, they give the following: libol-0.2.23/ libol-0.2.23/src/ libol-0.2.23/src/gc.c libol-0.2.23/src/gc.h libol-0.2.23/src/io.c libol-0.2.23/src/io.h libol-0.2.23/src/list.h.x libol-0.2.23/src/xalloc.c libol-0.2.23/src/xalloc.h libol-0.2.23/src/jpoll.c libol-0.2.23/src/jpoll.h libol-0.2.23/src/read_line.c libol-0.2.23/src/read_line.h libol-0.2.23/src/resource.c libol-0.2.23/src/resource.h libol-0.2.23/src/werror.c tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors ...and... syslog-ng-1.4.17/ syslog-ng-1.4.17/doc/ syslog-ng-1.4.17/doc/sgml/ syslog-ng-1.4.17/doc/sgml/syslog-ng.html.tar.gz syslog-ng-1.4.17/doc/sgml/syslog-ng.ps syslog-ng-1.4.17/doc/sgml/Makefile.am syslog-ng-1.4.17/doc/sgml/Makefile.in syslog-ng-1.4.17/doc/sgml/syslog-ng.dvi syslog-ng-1.4.17/doc/sgml/syslog-ng.txt syslog-ng-1.4.17/doc/sgml/syslog-ng.sgml syslog-ng-1.4.17/doc/syslog-ng.conf.sample syslog-ng-1.4.17/doc/syslog-ng.8 syslog-ng-1.4.17/doc/syslog-ng.conf.5 syslog-ng-1.4.17/doc/syslog-ng.old.txt syslog-ng-1.4.17/doc/syslog-ng.conf.solaris syslog-ng-1.4.17/doc/syslog-ng.conf.demo syslog-ng-1.4.17/doc/Makefile.am syslog-ng-1.4.17/doc/Makefile.in syslog-ng-1.4.17/doc/stresstest.sh syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/ syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/center.c syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/center.h syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/afunix.c syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/cfg-lex.c syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/cfg-lex.l syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/afuser.c syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/afuser.h syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/afprogram.c.x syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/afstreams.c.x syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/afinter.c syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/afinter.h syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/afsocket.c syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/afsocket.h syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/log.c syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/log.h syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/tests/ syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/tests/testall syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/tests/syslog-ng.conf.eval syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/tests/Makefile.am syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/tests/Makefile.in syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/tests/test.eval syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/syslog-ng.h syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/filters.c syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/filters.h syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/strcasecmp.c syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/filters.c.x syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/filters.h.x syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/afunix.c.x syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/afprogram.c syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/afprogram.h syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/log.h.x syslog-ng-1.4.17/src/cfg-grammar.c tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Are there any other sources for these than the balabit website? Anyone have any other ideas? Thanks, Stuart