Re: root.dip: invalid group when installing ppp

1997-03-17 Thread David Gaudine
On 14 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: root.dip: invalid group when installing ppp

1997-03-17 Thread David Gaudine
On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, David Gaudine wrote: OOPs, addgroup only accepts letters and numbers, root.dip is invalid. So I edited /etc/group as follows: operator:*:37: root.dip:*:39: src:*:40: Thanks to those who pointed out that root.dip is not the group name, it means user root and

Re: root.dip: invalid group when installing ppp

1997-03-15 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On 14 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. I had the same problen. A newline was missing... Nicolás

root.dip: invalid group when installing ppp

1997-03-14 Thread David Gaudine
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: root.dip: invalid group when installing ppp

1997-03-14 Thread jghasler
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 Hasler)