here is the log of crossEPG, I've just test a EPG download :
17/04/2013 23:45:35 Deflating epg_data/rytec.channels.xml.gz
17/04/2013 23:45:35 File deflated
17/04/2013 23:45:35 Reading channels from /media/usb/crossepg/crossepg.tmp.dTeFk9
17/04/2013 23:45:36 Read 7102 channels
17/04/2013 23:45:36 Download channels from url: http://www.world-of-...channels.xml.gz (0)
17/04/2013 23:45:36 HTTP Get (host:www.world-of-satellite.com, port:80, page:epg_data/rytecxmltvcsat.gz)
17/04/2013 23:45:40 Downloaded 1799022 bytes
17/04/2013 23:45:40 Deflating epg_data/rytecxmltvcsat.gz
17/04/2013 23:45:42 File deflated
17/04/2013 23:45:42 Parsing /media/usb/crossepg/crossepg.tmp.vvcNkF
17/04/2013 23:49:26 Read 44257 events
17/04/2013 23:49:26 Interactive: SAVE cmd received
17/04/2013 23:49:29 Interactive: CLOSE cmd received
17/04/2013 23:49:29 EPGDB closed
17/04/2013 23:49:29 Interactive: OK action sent
17/04/2013 23:49:29 Interactive: QUIT cmd received
17/04/2013 23:49:30 SIFTeam CrossEPG DB Converter 0.6.2 (svn 300) © 2009-2011 Sandro Cavazzoni (http://code.google.com/p/crossepg/)
17/04/2013 23:49:30 This software is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
17/04/2013 23:49:30 EPGDB opened
17/04/2013 23:49:30 Reading EPGDB...
17/04/2013 23:49:30 Completed
17/04/2013 23:49:30 EPG.DAT opened
17/04/2013 23:49:30 Writing events...
17/04/2013 23:49:30 Sorting hashes...
17/04/2013 23:49:30 Writing descriptors...
17/04/2013 23:49:31 EPG.DAT closed
17/04/2013 23:49:31 EPGDB closed