Ralph M.Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Shortly after I updated virus definitions in VirusBarrier X4, a scan > reported infection of fink.conf and fink.conf~ by SH.NarcoDusse.gen, > and the subsequent repair option replaced both files with null files. > I found that the backups I had saved were also infected, although > VirusBarrier had not previously detected this, so I am stymied. Do I > need to reinstall fink from scratch? If so, how do I remove the old > one that no longer works? > > I tried copying another user's fink.conf file, but found I needed > permissions I don't have. It might not work anyway, since he is using > a later version of OS X, 10.4 instead of 10.3. I conjectured that > meant changing the Distribution line, but there might be other subtler > diffferences as well. Since I am such a newbie, I probably should not > invoke superuser privileges to experiment with such fixes for > fink.conf.
The explicit references to 10.3 vs 10.4 (probably the "Distribution:") are the only critical differences. To install the file, you'll need to use "sudo"--assuming you have your friend's file copied to your machine and have adjusted the Distribution, 'sudo cp fink.conf /sw/etc'. That should get you at least as far as being able to run the fink command--try 'fink list' to prove that it works. Then you can 'fink configure' to reset your choices of mirror servers and other preferences. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
