Re: Re: Snort 1.8.1 released! [Snort-users]

[Michael Boman <michael () ayeka dyndns org>]

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On Sunday 19 August 2001 13:14, John Sage wrote:
> Stephen:
>
> I just flushed Mozilla's memory cache and disk cache, and tried it again.
>
> While the download is in progress, the dialog reports a file size of
> about 1,026,xxx as you say, and yet the file saved to disk is *still*
> 3.5meg..
>
> (I tried gzip'ing *that* and the md5 sum is 'way off:
> 8d8303blahblahblah...)
>
> Weird..
>
> Oh well, 1.8.1-beta4 is working fine; it'll keep for a while.
>
> - John

I recon that Mozilla is gunzip'ing it for you. Use 'wget' to download ;)

Else, run 'file' on the downloaded to see if it reconizes the file. If it 
sees the tar archive untar the file with 'tar xvf <file>'.

Best regards
 Michael Boman

> Stephen W. Thompson wrote:
> > John,
> >
> > It's already been gunzip'ed! Maybe it's a plug-in, or something else
> > behind the scenes, dunno.  If you gzip (a copy of) it, you'll see it
> > matches the predicted md5sum.
> >
> > When I retrieved it tonite, it came down gzip'ed, 1026894 bytes.
> >
> > En paz,
> > Steve
> >
> > > Why am I getting "gzip: stdin: not in gzip format" when I tar -xzvf the
> > > file downloaded from
> > > http://www.snort.org/releases/snort-1.8.1-RELEASE.tar.gz ?
> > >
> > > This happens on three different boxes here, all of which just had
> > > 1.8.1-beta4 put on, (not to mention other stuff since..) not too long
> > > ago...
> > >
> > > file size downloaded is 3,532,800
> > >
> > > md5sum is wrong: b06f7d03b1c414b09eedc570329f6091
>
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