any question

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 23:17, Kalelme wrote:
> ok this is my error in the shell
>  
> bash-2.05a$ ping -n -U -c 5 localhost 
> ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted
> 
> how is corrected this error? 
>  
> (the request is ping error remember =0) )
>  
> Please i am new in the world of linux. :0)
>  
> Juan Simao

probably you are usinga hardened OS which does not allow ordianary users
to run ping. You need to set ping suid root, set check_ping suid root,
or I think you are out of luck.

-- 
Karl DeBisschop <karl at debisschop.net>



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