tar, knapster, bees

[bluebell]

hello :)
i'm having problems getting my downloaded knapster client running. The file appears as a tar.gz , but when i try to extract it (using the tar -x command) it gives me an error message saying that all of the four files in the archive 'is not a directory'. Can anyone give me any pointers? (I've only been using linux a week...)
also, someone giving me advice suggested i could try to find pids (i wanted to shut down a specific program that wasnt responding) by 'doing a ps ax'. Does anyone know what he meant?

and aren't bees great?
> Bluebell x

[Derango]

try "tar xvfz <filename>"

check out "man tar" for what these switches actual do.

[Stween]

To be honest, i really don't know what is stopping you from extracting the tar.gz ... whats the full command you are using to do this? It should be along the lines of

'tar -zxf knapster-X.X.tar.gz'

where the X's are some sort of version number. Perhaps its corrupted?? I don't know if it would help, but you could always try downloading the file again...

as for your other question, if you run

'ps -ax' (or just 'ps -a', its probably a bit clearer) a list of running processes should be displayed. From this you can see the number of that process (its pid). Running

'kill XXX'

XXX being the pid should kill off the program you were wanting rid of.


Hope that helps.
Stween