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