Re: A piping problem

1998-12-07 Thread Rob Collins
On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Joseph Hartmann wrote:

 #!perl
 while(STDIN){chop $_; print $_\r\n;};
 
 I can give the command less /usr/local/bin/printer.staircase.filer
 to bash, and get a listing of the file -- it really IS there.  
 
 But when I try to pipe stuff into the filter with the following command
 to bash  cat mytextfile | /usr/local/bin/printer.staircase.filter | lpr
 I get the the following error report:
 
 bash: /usr/local/bin/printer.staircase.filter: No such file or directory
 lpr: stdin: empty input file
 
 Can anyone explain why bash tells me the file is not there?

You get No such file or directory -- probably because perl is not in your
path.  Put the absolute path to perl in line one, like this:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

hope that helps!

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recommendations for an X news client?

1998-12-01 Thread Rob Collins
I'm looking for something better than knews and netscape's news client --
any suggestions?

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Re: Debian Crash

1998-11-16 Thread Rob Collins
On the same topic, I've recently had a crash in debian  -- one that I've
had before in Redhat 4.  I've a very funky, self-built system... the crash
is like this (and sometimes its like clockwork):
1. boot with xdm.  Log in.
2. CtrlAltF[1...6] to switch to a different terminal.
3. Log in, do my stuff, log out.
4. CtrlAltF[7,8] to either return to X or look at the console log...
it will never get to X (or the console log)... the video freezes blank and
that's that.

I doubt anyone could tell, just by description, what that problem is, so
I'm looking for a good way to try and trace it.  Trying to telnet in from
a remote site is a good idea (it could mean the box is up, and something
driving my screen died), I'll try.  I'm fishing for other possibilities.
(??? Please)  

:)


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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Rich Harran. wrote:

 My Debian system just crashed.  This has never happened before, which is
 one of the things I like about Linux.
 
 I've got a pretty standard Hamm system, and I was running X with emacs
 (20), xmix, and netscape, with a navigator and mail window open.  I went
 on a webpage I've visited many times before (www.tomshardware.com), and
 everything seized up: the mouse wouldn't move, I couldn't move between
 virtual desktops and I couldn't move between virtual teminals.  I waited a
 couple of minutes, then tried cntlaltbackspace, then
 cntlaltdel, neither of which had any effect whatsoever, so I
 pressed the big red button, and restarted that way.
 
 The only non-Debian software I have installed is xaudio, an X window mpeg
 layer 3 audio player, which is off /root/mpeg (I was just trying it out).
 My hardware is an old(ish) Cyrix 6x86 (M1) P200+ on a SuperMicro P5xtra
 motherboard, 32mb DRAM (2simms), Matrox millenium 4mb, WD harddrive,
 mitsumi Cd rom, soundblaster awe64 pnp, microsoft serial mouse.
 
 Up 'till now, everything seems to have been working fine (I've had random
 crashes under win95, but I think that's a feature of the OS).  
 
 My questions:
 
   Is there a problem with my hardware (it's quite old)?
   Was there a problem with Linux?
   If not, is there now?
   If so, how do I fix it?
   What should I do to test the components in my system individually?
   I put it together myself (about 2 years ago), so I don't
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RE: Debian Crash

1998-11-16 Thread Rob Collins
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote:

 what version of Netscape were you using ? The latest 4.5 or the older 4.0.
 
 I recently installed the 4.5 on my SMP system and have been having system
 freezes happening at least once a day.

Jeezus, system crashes once a day!  Uninstall that puppy!

And I thought Netscape 4 was iffy in UNIX.  :)


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Re: Moving Files from Windows

1998-11-16 Thread Rob Collins
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Jeff Katcher wrote:

 Costa, Michael J. wrote:
  I have just installed LINUX on another machine in my office. The powers that
  be are reluctant at this moment to let me put in on the network. I have
  loaded some items down to my NT machine and now need to ship them to my
  LINUX box. However they are too big to fit on a floppy. Anyone got any ideas
  of a utility I can use to compress on NT and uncompress on LINUX?
 
 Have you tried Paralell or serial link?? ie nulmodem or paralell (I
 havn't tried this myself, but it might work (Kermit to Kermit)??

Or you could get GNU's tar and gzip utilities for DOS.  (Almost positive
GNU is the place to get these utils  -- if not, I've got them cause I've
used them at work).


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Re:96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

1998-11-16 Thread Rob Collins
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Rich Harran. wrote:

 I supposedly have 32Mb ram, but free says 30236.  Am I misinterpreting
 something, or do I have a memory problem.  (I only tried 'free' after
 following this thread!)
 
 TIA
 Rich Harran

Rich, your worried about the missing 3 MB?  I'm not sure why that happens
either.

It just so happens that I have 128MB... but lilo.conf wasn't altered with
the 'append=mem=128M' line I'm supposed to have (that's all fixed now,
I just have to reboot). So I should currently have 64MB.  free reports
only 63528, though (ie, 62MB)  -- so I'm kinda curious about that 2 MB I'm
missing, myself.  

I have no real clue (please fill me in), but it may be something like the
bios from some subsystem stays resident during boot, and in my case it
resides in the first 64MB.(???)  In any case, I wouldn't be too concerned
about it, your ram is, basically, all there.

best regards,
Rob


Re: dselect (or apt) wish list

1998-11-10 Thread Rob Collins
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Zack Brown wrote:

 4) It would be great to have a utility that searched my .dpkg/ tree and
 identified any debs for which newer versions have already been downloaded.
 That way I could delete the old ones and save space.

Are there .lsm's for each .deb in the ftp server?  You could write a
script that took the lsm for installed packages, reads the name
(along the lines of this hypothetical: kde-base_1.0 becomes kde-base)
and searches for that name in the ftp site.  If the version number is
greater (kde-base_1.1), queue it for download.  Your script could prompt
for you to replace the files after download (or could read a config file),
and could use quotas, a config file, or df output to insure it didn't do
any damage.  

I'm kinda interested in working on a script to handle something like this
(perl or java, I'm no great programmer)  -- if anyone, who knows a bit
about the ftp site layout for debian packages, wants to lend a hand 
provide some specifics for me, I'd be happy to write something (not that
others couldn't do better, but I suppose we all can contribute).

 8) Last but not least, during the select phase, when searching for
 packages, only package names are searchable. I would really like to search
 descriptions as well.

Package categories (Opt/News, or whatever) are also in the search list.

 I hope no one takes offense to these suggestions. I'm just trying to help.
 
 Zack

cool ideas, Zack.

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debian KDE: kscd's CDDB access broken?

1998-11-06 Thread Rob Collins
the kscd that comes with the KDE debian install can not connect to any
CDDB database.  I'm sure it is a problem with the version of kscd (I read
that v 1.2.something works, but previous releases had problems)  -- I
want to upgrade minimally to get a working version of kscd.  Does anyone
know what needs to be upgraded?

much thankx in advance.

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mounting cds in debian

1998-11-05 Thread Rob Collins
I've a new debian installation; and I'm trying to mount music cds.  My
system is scsi, and I've a CD-WORM on scd0, and a 24x Pioneer on scd1.
As root, I get the wrong fs type, bad option... error when I try to
mount the drives (I get the error and control returns right away on scd1, 
but scd0, the WORM drive, takes a while).  Like the following:

darknesswithin:/dev# mount -v -r -t iso9660 /dev/scd1 /cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd1,
   or too many mounted file systems
darknesswithin:/dev# mount -v -r -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0,
   or too many mounted file systems

scd0 and scd1 look like:

darknesswithin:/dev# ls -la scd*
br--r-   1 root cdrom 11,   0 Nov  2 09:49 scd0
br--r-   1 root cdrom 11,   1 Nov  2 09:49 scd1



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Re: changing default window manager - How!

1998-11-05 Thread Rob Collins
edit /etc/X11/window-managers
after the commented lines (beginning with '#'), it lists, in order of
preference, windows managers to load  -- you want yours to be the first on
that list.

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On 5 Nov 1998, rathon wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I am using Debian2.0 and the default window manager that comes up is
 fvwm. I would like to change this permanently to olvwm. Which file
 should I edit ?
 
 Also, how I can I change my shell permanently from bash to csh..
 
 Thanks in advance
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Re: SCSI problem, can't instal Debian

1998-11-02 Thread Rob Collins
On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Reagan Doose wrote:

 I am trying to install Debian 2.0 from a Bootable, SCSI CD.  I have a Dell
 Dimension XPS H266 computer with an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter and a 2GB UW
 hard drive.
 
 All starts off well, I get the boot prompt, and the system looks like it is
 coming up, then I get this:
 
 (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Bad scbptr 16 during SELTO.
 (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Referenced SCB 225 not valid during SELTO.
 SCSISEQ = 0x5a SEQADDR = 0xh SSTATO = 0x15 SSTAT1 = 0x8a
 
 This is repeated forever.
 
 This problem did not occur two days ago when I installed RedHat 4.2, so I
 don't think it is a hardware problem.

You're supposed to boot with this lilo append option:
aic7xxx=extended,no_reset
So, from the lilo prompt, you type that  -- once in, edit /etc/lilo.conf,
and add that as an append option (like 'append=aic7xxx=...'  -- read the
lilo man), and rerun lilo.  

For some reason, this only keeps my hard drive from resetting the bus
about 1 in three tries, though, so if that works for you please write me.
:)


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Re: SCSI problem, can't instal Debian

1998-11-02 Thread Rob Collins
Just fyi, I think I finally did fix my SCSI problem (had a 1 in 3 chance
of booting without the infinite reset errors).  The problem was that I
have a device that was incorrectly set to UW instead of U (40 max trans
rate, instead of 20).  The old aic7xxx driver I had in RH4 somehow didn't
have a problem with this, it would simply renegotiate transfers to the
correct speed... I changed the setting in my adaptec card, rebooted with
the aic7xxx=extended,no_reset flag, and all's well.

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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote:

 
 
 On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Reagan Doose wrote:
 
  I am trying to install Debian 2.0 from a Bootable, SCSI CD.  I have a
 Dell
  Dimension XPS H266 computer with an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter and a
 2GB UW
  hard drive.
  
  All starts off well, I get the boot prompt, and the system looks like
 it is
  coming up, then I get this:
  
  (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Bad scbptr 16 during SELTO.
  (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Referenced SCB 225 not valid during SELTO.
  SCSISEQ = 0x5a SEQADDR = 0xh SSTATO = 0x15 SSTAT1 = 0x8a
  
  This is repeated forever.
  
  This problem did not occur two days ago when I installed RedHat 4.2,
 so I
  don't think it is a hardware problem.
 
 I have a computer with an adaptec 2840 controler, and had the same
 problems.  The only way I was able to get the SCSI on line was to
 install a custom kernel with support for ONLY the adaptec controller
 built in.  Trouble is that the stock kernel supports MANY different
 kinds of scsi controllers and probes for the one you have.  This
 probing screws up some adaptec models into FUBAR.  Also you MUST
 enable the bios on the scsi card or linux won't be able to use it.  I
 ended up puting an IDE cd rom in the computer to load a base system,
 then re-built the kernel.  Now I can use the scsi cd.  If you have a
 second computer, or have access to another debian system you can
 replace the stock kernel on the boot floppy with one having only the
 adaptec (or what ever) driver.
 
 In my case adding lilo parameters did not help.
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debian bootup and aic7xxx module

1998-10-30 Thread Rob Collins
okay, I've got this adaptec 2940UW card which was a major pain in my a$$
when I installed RedHat 4 on my system a while back.  I've just installed
debian, and on startup (from the rescue disk), couldn't load the kernal
without the lilo flag aic7xxx=extended,no_reset.  

The funny thing is, half way though the install, I decided I wanted a
different disk partition setup, and I could not change the primary boot
sector from reading Linux EXT, even though the type flag was 83.  So I
restarted the install, and it wouldn't boot up passed the aic7xxx
error: not the SIG error, instead my scsi hard drive (I only have a single
scsi hard drive), which resides on id:lun 0:0 resets the whole chain
repeatedly.  After about 3 tries (thinking maybe i mispelled, or maybe I
didn't have extended, or whathaveyou), it worked again, and it installed
the base system.  I was at the reboot part, so I did that, and guess what?
three tries loading lilo with aic7xxx=extended,no_reset before it would
work.

anyone know what's going on?

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Re: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

1998-10-22 Thread Rob Collins
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998,  Raymond A. Ingles wrote:

 On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Moore, Paul wrote:
  What I'd like to do is to write a script which starts the PPP
  connection, then waits for all the ip-up.d scripts to run, and for my
  mail to finish arriving, and then drops the connection with poff
  (actually, I'd like it to ask me whether it was OK to go offline, and
  allow me to override, but that's not too hard).
 
  Well, could you add a script in ip-up.d that runs last, and checks to see
 if mail is finished? This might solve part of your problem...

it would be best to call your script after ip-up, from the script calling
ip-up.
that could be something like:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#we'll call this script ppp-wrapup.pl

#lets user set timeout value on the command line (ie, 
#ppp-wrapup.pl timeoutvalue)
($ARGV[0] =~ /^\d*$/)? ($timeout = $ARGV[0]): ($timeout = 5);

#wait for ip-ups to die  ... maybe you don't really want to do that.
while(grep /ip\-up\.d/, `ps -aef`){ 
last if($a++  $timeout); 
sleep 5; 
}

#keep track if ip-up finished
$done++ unless ($a  4);

#wait for mail script to finish
sleep 5;
while(grep /mailprogram/, `ps -aef`){ 
last if($b++  $timeout); 
sleep 5;
}

#again keep track
$done++ unless ($b  4);

if($done  0){
#do your work killing the connection here

}else{
#handle the timeout here

}

exit;

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Re: Issues in switching to Debian

1998-10-13 Thread Rob Collins
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998,  Raymond A. Ingles wrote:

 On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Rob Collins wrote:
 
  ...and a fairly larger problem: I've discovered I have a virus on my
  machine. 
[snip]
  No, a boot-sector virus essentially runs under the BIOS. This *can*
 infect a Linux machine but I find it difficult to believe that Linux would
 still boot in such a circumstance.
 
  What leads you to believe the virus is running under Linux?

here's what I gather is relevant from ps, pstree, and slice;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# pstree -alnp
init(1)
 |-xdm(413) -nodaemon
 |  |-X(415) -auth /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-a00413
 |  `-xdm(416)
 | `-fvwm2(427) -cmd
FvwmM4\040-debug\040/etc/X11/AnotherLevel/fvwm2rc.m4
 ||-FvwmTaskBar(507) 10 4 /tmp/fvwmrca00447 0 8
 ||-FvwmButtons(508) 12 4 /tmp/fvwmrca00447 0 8
 ||-nxterm(510) +ut -T darknesswithin.intr.net-Main -n Main ...
 ||  `-bash(513)
 || `-su(514) -
 ||`-bash(515)
 ||   `-pppd(6591) debug /dev/ttyS1 38400 connect ...
 ||-xload(511) -nolabel -geometry 32x20+0+0 -bg grey60 -update 5
 ||-FvwmPager(512) 12 4 /tmp/fvwmrca00447 0 8 0 1
 ||-nxterm(5297)
 ||  `-bash(5298)
 || `-su(5404) -
 ||`-bash(5405)
 ||-nxterm(6065)
 ||  `-bash(6066)
 ||-nxterm(9934)
 ||  `-bash(9935)
 || `-ssh(8012) -p23 pete
 |`-nxterm(32019)
 |   `-bash(32022)
 |  `-su(16642) -
 | `-bash(16643)
 |`-pstree(16662) -alnp
 |-xconsole(422) -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed
 `-netscape-commun(14290) /usr/doc/HTML/index.html
`-netscape-commun(14299)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ps aef
  PID TTY STAT  TIME COMMAND
  416  ?  S0:00  \_ -:0HOME=/ TERM=linux 
BOOT_IMAGE=linux AUTOBOOT=YES
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin RUNLEVEL=5 PREVLEVEL=N
CONSOLE=/dev/console INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.71
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# top

55 processes: 54 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  5.2% user,  2.2% system,  0.0% nice, 92.7% idle
Mem:  127924K av,  67892K used,  60032K free,  37516K shrd,   4968K buff
Swap: 104384K av, 20K used, 104364K free 13804K cached

  PID USER PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
  413 root   0   0   840  840   724 S   0  0.0  0.6   0:00 xdm
  416 root   0   0  1856 1856  1360 S   0  0.0  1.4   0:00 xdm


What's with the \_ -:0 command?

well, here's the full ps, pstree, and top slice;

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# pstree -alnp
init(1) 
 |-(kflushd,2)
 |-(kswapd,3)
 |-kerneld(25)
 |-syslogd(188)
 |-klogd(197)
 |-atd(209)
 |-crond(220)
 |-portmap(231)
 |-inetd(254)
 |-named(265)
 |-routed(276)
 |-sshd(287)
 |-lpd(298)
 |-rpc.mountd(310)
 |-rpc.nfsd(319)
 |-rwhod(330)
 |-gpm(354) -t MouseSystems
 |-mingetty(405) tty1
 |-mingetty(406) tty2
 |-mingetty(407) tty3
 |-mingetty(408) tty4
 |-mingetty(409) tty5
 |-mingetty(410) tty6
 |-update(412)
 |-xdm(413) -nodaemon
 |  |-X(415) -auth /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-a00413
 |  `-xdm(416)
 | `-fvwm2(427) -cmd
FvwmM4\040-debug\040/etc/X11/AnotherLevel/fvwm2rc.m4
 ||-FvwmTaskBar(507) 10 4 /tmp/fvwmrca00447 0 8
 ||-FvwmButtons(508) 12 4 /tmp/fvwmrca00447 0 8
 ||-nxterm(510) +ut -T darknesswithin.intr.net-Main -n Main ...
 ||  `-bash(513)
 || `-su(514) -
 ||`-bash(515)
 ||   `-pppd(6591) debug /dev/ttyS1 38400 connect ...
 ||-xload(511) -nolabel -geometry 32x20+0+0 -bg grey60 -update 5
 ||-FvwmPager(512) 12 4 /tmp/fvwmrca00447 0 8 0 1
 ||-nxterm(5297)
 ||  `-bash(5298)
 || `-su(5404) -
 ||`-bash(5405)
 ||-nxterm(6065)
 ||  `-bash(6066)
 ||-nxterm(9934)
 ||  `-bash(9935)
 || `-ssh(8012) -p23 pete
 |`-nxterm(32019)
 |   `-bash(32022)
 |  `-su(16642) -
 | `-bash(16643)
 |`-pstree(16662) -alnp
 |-xconsole(422) -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed
 `-netscape-commun(14290) /usr/doc/HTML/index.html
`-netscape-commun(14299)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ps aef
  PID TTY STAT  TIME COMMAND
1  ?  S5:48 init [5] HOME=/ TERM=linux BOOT_IMAGE=linux 
2  ?  SW   0:00 (kflushd)
3  ?  SW  0:00 (kswapd)
   25  ?  S0:02 /sbin/kerneld INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.71 TERM=linux
HOSTTYPE=i386 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin CONSOLE=/dev/console
HOME=/ PREVLEVEL=N RUNLEVEL=S SHELL=/bin/bash AUTOBOOT=YES
BOOT_IMAGE=linux OSTYPE=Linux SHLVL=1
  188  ?  S0:03 syslogd INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.71 previous=N
TERM=linux HOSTTYPE=i386 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
CONSOLE=/dev/console HOME=/ PREVLEVEL=N RUNLEVEL=5 SHELL=/bin/bash
runlevel=5 AUTOBOOT=YES BOOT_IMAGE=linux OSTYP
  197  ?  S0:00

Re: unattended ftp

1998-10-12 Thread Rob Collins
You could write a script like:
/home/foobar/ftp.script:

user foobar foobars_password
lcd /home/foobar
get filename


and then execute it whenyou want, or put it in cron... like this:
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/foobar:

0 0 * * * ftp -n -i /home/foobar/ftp.script



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On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, A. M. Varon wrote:

 On 12 Oct 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
 
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   Excuse if this is a FAQ, but how can I set up a shell script to ftp to a
   host and retrieve a file?
 
 wget. no shell script necessary to get a file. Handles anonymous and
 password protected FTP sites.
 
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XWindows -- checking color mode?

1998-10-12 Thread Rob Collins
just wandering if anyone knows how you can check how many colors your
display is set to while active (while in xwindows)?


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RE: XWindows -- checking color mode?

1998-10-12 Thread Rob Collins
much thanks!

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On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Shaleh wrote:

 run xdpyinfo in an xterm.
 
 On 12-Oct-98 Rob Collins wrote:
  just wandering if anyone knows how you can check how many colors your
  display is set to while active (while in xwindows)?
  
  
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Issues in switching to Debian

1998-10-09 Thread Rob Collins
I currently run RH 5 on my P-Pro sys, and I want to switch to Debian. 
While I'm doing that, I figure I should also get a few cool programs I've
seen, like KDE, Eterm, the GIMP (the install that comes in RH makes a very
minimally useful program ... but I've seen great things with it, so there
must be better versions), and Linux Explorer. 

There are issues I want to feel comfortable on b4 I bring my machine into
work and try the ftp install (I've a 80lb. monitor, so I ain't gonna just 
take 'er in and try it):

I have some components that are fairly unique (I've 2 sound cards, only
one could be supported (SB64), a 12*12 Wacom drawing tablet I use as my
only pointing device, and a Jaz).  Should I get these drivers again, and
backup the config files I had to use? 

...and a fairly larger problem: I've discovered I have a virus on my
machine. I figure I can get rid of the virus by loading up and
disinfecting it in Windows95 (blech)  -- but it may or may not be
infecting my Linux installation (it -appears- to load as a child process
to xdm on init)... b4 I do any install I want to know that I've
disinfected my system, but don't know how to go about that in Linux.  

Any help is greatly appreciated. :)

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Re: Issues in switching to Debian

1998-10-09 Thread Rob Collins
It disabled writing to my floppy disk, for one thing.  The ppid points to
xdm.  In fact, in top it reports its command line value as xdm instead
of (what you see in ps) -:0... which I figure is garbage.

Not that I'm an expert, but from what I gather, it is (at least) an MBR
virus, and therefore I'd expect just about anything would detect it (I'll
borrow some Anti-virus software and try it tonight).  But what this thing
has done, if anything, to my linux partitions (and lilo, of course, has to
be shot) is the issue I see as most important right now.

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On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Wayne Cuddy wrote:

 What makes you think this is a virus?  I don't think you would be able
 to disinfect a Linux virus with 95.  What is the process that is loading?
 
 On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Rob Collins wrote:
 
  ...and a fairly larger problem: I've discovered I have a virus on my
  machine. I figure I can get rid of the virus by loading up and
  disinfecting it in Windows95 (blech)  -- but it may or may not be
  infecting my Linux installation (it -appears- to load as a child process
  to xdm on init)... b4 I do any install I want to know that I've
  disinfected my system, but don't know how to go about that in Linux.  
  
  Any help is greatly appreciated. :)
  
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  Just keep telling yourself you are immortal  --Albert Hofmann
  
  
  
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