Recent content by lindberg

If it *says* "core dumped", then it probably did dump one in /cores/core.<pid> Core dumps are off by default I'm pretty sure, but when they are I don't think it actually says "core dumped" when aborting. If the corefiles aren't showing up, then I vaguely recollect there being an...

Is it really a .tar.gz file but misnamed? You can use "file <filename>" to tell you. If it is, then "tar -xvzf <filename>" will unpack it (the -z flag says to run gunzip on the file first). Otherwise.. dunno. Maybe it got corrupted during the download. You know... I bet you have to use...

Use tar -xf file.tar The -f argument specifies the tarfile to process. Without it, tar assumes you want to unpack from the tape drive, so it goes looking for the tape device in /dev. tar -xvf file.tar (also adding the -v flag) will list each file as it's unpacked.