Thus spake Seneca Cunningham: > Cameron Matheson <cmatheson3@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I'm probably missing something here... but can't you just wait for the > > password prompt? > > I could, but I don't want to always check my timing. Normally I just type at > full speed like foo did, and the password prompt comes up before the > password gets in. But sometimes the password prompt takes a moment before it > comes up, and some characters of my password get exposed. > > > about the source... are you sure that the archive is good? Does it have a > > .gz or .tgz extension? If it's a .bz2 then you will need to use bunzip2 > > The filename is shadow_20000902.orig.tar.gz > > > instead of gunzip. > > > On Tuesday 15 January 2002 08:16 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > > I downloaded the source so that I could see if I could do anything about > > > it, but gzip is complaining that it isn't in gzip format. Is there any > > > special package I need to get to be able to decompress the source? I > have > > > gzip version 1.3.2-3, tar 1.13.25-1, and login 20000902-8. Try file shadow_20000902.orig.tar.gz - your browser may have just transparently decompressed it for you, and you'r left with a misnamed tar archive. If so, rename it and go to. BTW, I occasionally have the same problem, but I have tried to learn to restrain myself when logging in. Not always easy, so if you find a fix, let me know? Steve -- When it comes to helping you, some people stop at nothing.
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