title: Gzip: Too many levels of symbolic links
body: <p>folks. I've just wrong <code>gzip</code> my <code>/etc/</code> folder on Ubuntu 10.10 (It's my home Internet server). So, the wrong command to gzip have changed the original files in <code>/etc/</code> folder with .gz ones. <br />
  The server doesn't start now. <br>Then I've booted from disk with Ubuntu live and tried to extract files in /etc/:<br />
  <code>gunzip -r *.* /etc/</code> 
  <br />
  But I've got a problem for some files: 
  <code>file.gz too many levels of symbolic links</code> <br>
  Any suggestions? (I need to extract all the files with the replacing to restore my system)</p>