Trouble with ping

[Mark Price]

Marc Powell wrote:

>Check_ping is a fancy wrapper to /bin/ping. More than likely /bin/ping
>can only be run as root. You'll need to suid the executable so that
>other users can run it. chmod 4755 /bin/ping should do it for you.
>  
>

thanks Marc, that was exactly the problem!  I thought check_ping was a 
standalone binary.  I'm rockin now.

Mark




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