Re: root.dip: invalid group when installing ppp

David Gaudine writes: > When I try to configure ppp I get: > Setting up ppp (2.2.0f-19) ... > chown: root.dip: invalid group > dpkg: error processing ppp (--configure): I ran into that recently with diald. Turned out to be a typo in /etc/group. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasle

Re: Local X application defaults

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James W. Lynch) wrote: >> Riku Saikkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Can X be set to read app-defaults >> > files in /usr/local/X11/app-defaults/ (or whatever) in addition to the >> > normal directory? >> You could try (ab-)using XUSERFILESEAR

Re: How to change termcap defaults of an xterm?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) writes: > I would like to change the way xterm displays highlighted words. > Currently it underlines those words, but I would like to have it > change the background color to something else, let's say yellow > (as my xterm background is set to dark blue). > > What

Re: Connecting to a Windows NT server

You can very definitely make a connection to a Windows NT server. You neglected to say what kind of connection. PPP? Should be pretty easy. File service or printer sharing via a LAN-Manager-compliant protocol? Make sure to install TCP/IP and Microsoft file/printer sharing on the NT side. Use the "s

Sz Package

Hi, I use minicom with the Sz package for Zmodem download, and was wonder, to resume a download is it sz -r, sz r, szr, or something else? Thanks, Pete Poff---AKA---BlackJack Personal E-Mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kyron E-Mail Address:[E

root.dip: invalid group when installing ppp

When I try to configure ppp I get: Setting up ppp (2.2.0f-19) ... chown: root.dip: invalid group dpkg: error processing ppp (--configure): Should I simply create the group using "addgroup"? What should the group ID be?

Re: Screen Saver

Nop, not the motherboard, thats one of the first things I checked. I'm able to control it now using the following commands: xset s off (for xwindows, will not go blank after 10 minutes) setterm -blank 0 (for my console sessions, does not go blank at all) Should these options be run as root ??

Re: Screen Saver

Are you sure that your motherboard dosent have some powersaving feature that is kicking in? Joseph Palicke http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/palicke On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 00:09:54 -0500 (EST) > From: Matthew Tebbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Larry 'Daf

Re: Login Incorrect with xdm...

On Mar 12, Mathieu LEGRAND wrote > my keyboard was not well configured. My AltGr key on > my french keyboard doesn't work. Therefore, this is a > bug of the Debian distribution ;-). Does someone know > how to fix this bug ? This isn't a bug but a bad confugiration of your XF86Config. Uncomment "Ri

Connecting to a Windows NT server

Hello =) Has anyone managed to succesfully connect a Windows NT server? THe How-To's I've looked up and the books I have bought assume I use a normal server (Unix/Linux) but unfortunately at work we run Windows NTfor our servers .. Thank you. Any RTFM please tell me where to find the info

gdb-> Can't find a default source file

Hi All, I would like to know does this debuger (GDB 4.16) work with fortran source files or no. Tried to set source directory using 'directory MySourc' but in vain. Thanks forward for any help. Eugene Sevinian Cosmic Ray Division Yerevan Phisics Institute Alikhania

magicfilter and hp laserJetIIIp

Hi I have been using ghostscript 3.33 and magicfilter to produce printer PCL from postscript. With large documents, occasionally a strange character sequence appears on a page and some of the page body is skipped. Sometimes the printer just halts and refuses to continue. The printer has 3MB of RA

Re: Strange problem with debian install

On 14 Mar 1997, Sven Rudolph wrote: > Brian Freeze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1) I just installed the lasted release of debian on a pentium 166 system > > with 64 megs of ram. This system has a pci etherlink XL card in it. > > > > Problem: I am having major delays in ftp'ing or telneting

Re: Intel Network Card

On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Qiang Rao wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get my Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 (Model A I believe) to > work in Linux. I used to have an old driver which only works with Intel > EtherExpress Pro 100 Model B. Does anyone know where I can get the > drivers for my ehternet card? [

Re: Please :-( GE2500 Network card

Paulo Ramos wrote: > > No anwser ultil now... I would like to know where e can get the > driver for the network card GE2500. > As I've seen Bruce respond before... No answer == No one knows.

Re: could someone send me these files?

On Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:41:46 -0500 (EST) Richard Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you dial up to your ISP, with PPP, and your not on a network, please > send me the following. I have a simple dialup PPP connection to my PSP. I don't use diald. My installation is essentially the same

Intel Network Card

Hi, I am trying to get my Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 (Model A I believe) to work in Linux. I used to have an old driver which only works with Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 Model B. Does anyone know where I can get the drivers for my ehternet card? thanks in advance, -Qiang

Re: Strange network problems

Brian Freeze typed: > If I telnet out or ftp out I wait long periods of time for the username to > be excepted then the passwd. From there it is the same for "ls" or any other > command. For example. System www2.deltastar.nb.ca is the system with the new > debian release on it and www.deltastar.nb.

Re: /bin/sh != /bin/bash ? [was Re: zsh vs bash]

Carey Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 14 March 1997 13:32: >Here (with gzip 1.2.4-14) the postinst script is for /bin/sh. >I suspect the problem is the line in /etc/zshenv: > >PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:." > >which means that every time zsh is used, /usr

Re: fdate

On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Jesse Goldman wrote: > I've run into what appears to be a library problem with one of my debian > systems. When I try to compile a fortran program one one of them, > compilation chokes at the linking stage because a subroutine called > "fdate" can't be found. This doesn't ha

Please :-( GE2500 Network card

No anwser ultil now... I would like to know where e can get the driver for the network card GE2500. TIA Paulo

Re: Strange problem with debian install

Brian Freeze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) I just installed the lasted release of debian on a pentium 166 system > with 64 megs of ram. This system has a pci etherlink XL card in it. > > Problem: I am having major delays in ftp'ing or telneting to any site from > this system. When I try I get

Strange problem with debian install

Greetings to the list. I am having a problem with my debian install and I was wondering if anyway else has any solutions? 1) I just installed the lasted release of debian on a pentium 166 system with 64 megs of ram. This system has a pci etherlink XL card in it. Problem: I am having major delay

Re: testing tonight

What's wrong with ASCII art? Just don't waste the time scrolling down to read it... Thought [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zipcon.net/thought/imain.html _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/

Re: Screen Saver

On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > Actually, even when I'm not in Xwindows the screen still goes blank after > a few minutes. These is default on every Debian system I setup so far. > Would anyone know where that setting is ? Try 'setterm -blank n', where n = 0 to 60 (minutes.) 0 = n

Re: /bin/sh != /bin/bash ? [was Re: zsh vs bash]

On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Steve wrote: > The problem is that the scripts only work with bash in sh mode and not > with sh-compatible shells such as ash. Try making /bin/sh a symlink to > /bin/ash and reboot. You'll get error messages from the startup So if these script doesn't work with ash nor zsh in

Unsupported NM flag settings on CD-ROM mount

Hi, after mounting a self-toasted CD-ROM with Debian 1.2.7 I get tons of kernel messages like "Unsupported NM flag settings(2)". AFAIK this is because the CD-ROM has been made on an SGI workstation, which uses some extensions to ISO9660. It works however perfectly with "dpkg -i ...". The messa

fdate

Hi, I've run into what appears to be a library problem with one of my debian systems. When I try to compile a fortran program one one of them, compilation chokes at the linking stage because a subroutine called "fdate" can't be found. This doesn't happen on any of the other machines but all of

Re: Screen Saver

For the console, I believe "setterm -blank 0" is what you want. It won't change the X screen blanker, though, which uses a different mechanism. You can use xset, or I believe there is an option to set the blank time in the XF86Config file. -Larry -- Larry Daffner| Linux: Unleash the

Re: Screen Saver

Actually, even when I'm not in Xwindows the screen still goes blank after a few minutes. These is default on every Debian system I setup so far. Would anyone know where that setting is ? Matthew On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote: > "MT" == Matthew Tebbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> write

Re: Screen Saver

"MT" == Matthew Tebbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MT> I like keeping a screen saver on sometimes but I see that Debian MT> still blanks the display after a few minutes if I'm not using MT> the system. Where is this option in Debian ? I want to disable MT> it during the day. Look at th

Re: could someone send me these files?

Hello! Richard Morin writes: > > Hi folks, I'm still having some difficulty with my setup, but I trudge on. > No questions this time, just a request for some files so I can compare and > see for myself what I'm doin' wrong. > > If you dial up to your ISP, with PPP, and your not on a network, pl

Re: lprng+samba+some_filter? (WAS: LPD network printing)

>The problem is that I cann't get these three things working together. What >I did what set magicfilter as an input filter (if=whatever), and a shell >script that calls samba_print as an output filter (of=whatever), >but this doesn't work. In the printcap, lp is set to /dev/null, but >there's noth

Re: fvwmrc --> fvwmrc2

On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Paul Rightley wrote: > I have heard a mention here of a (Debian?) install script that might convert a > .fvwmrc file to a .fvwmrc2 file. Where can I find such a utility? It comes with the fvwm2 package, and automatically makes the changes when fvwm2 is installed. However, b

Re: GNU/Linux 1.2, help please!

I have System Commander as well. What it wants to do to laod linux is find lilo on the boot(right word?) sector of the partition linux is on, not the MBA of the whole disk. Lilo can be configured this way, but I'm not sure the Debian distribution has an option set up for doing it on install thro

Re: Cannot get full speed download on ppp

Thank you John, Just more info about it. Last night i did not give up and tried any BIOS settings i could think of but still the problem existed except when i tried: chdir to /extra ( this is on /dev/hdc1 ) tried a ftp session to retrieve a zipped file - lo and behold, i can download it

Re: /bin/sh != /bin/bash ? [was Re: zsh vs bash]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] > The only problem is that some packages, such as gzip, give an error > in the perl (!!??) postinst script. Here (with gzip 1.2.4-14) the postinst script is for /bin/sh. I suspect the problem is the line in /etc/zshenv: PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/us

sound-blaster/ide channel 2

Hiya Debian users! I just upgraded from Slackware 2.0 to Linux/Gnu 1.2.8 (read reformatted harddrive and installed Debian) So far things are great except for 2 things... I have a 8bit (old but stable) SoundBlaster (Factory default setup, IRQ 5 etc etc) and so far have been unable to figure out *h