What!

Daniel Bowen dbowen1 at MAC.COM
Tue Feb 25 16:23:27 GMT 2003


 Thanks, it seems that my webmail is corrupting the attachment.

On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 11:10AM, Evert Jan van Ramselaar <evertjan at VANRAMSELAAR.NL> wrote:

>Rose, Bobby wrote:
>> But MS doesn't look into compressed files, the virus scanner is supposed
>> to do all that.  Maybe the virus scanner timed out trying to uncompress
>> it and MS reported it as being corrupt and refused it altogether.
>
>The standard 'tar' command on my Redhat 7.2 box is unable to uncompress
>it too:
>
>[root at ram1 h1PFaOs02181]# pwd
>/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20030225/h1PFaOs02181
>[root at ram1 h1PFaOs02181]# tar zxvf queuefiles.tar.gz
>gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
>tar: Child returned status 1
>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
>
>--
>   Evert Jan van Ramselaar  <evertjan at vanramselaar.nl>
>   Van Ramselaar Info Tech  <http://www.vanramselaar.nl>
>
>



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