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Hi list, I am getting the followin

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rgoud

rgoud

IS-IT--Management
May 9, 2002
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Hi list,
I am getting the following error when I try ping
/usr/sbin/ping hostname
ping: socket: Permission denied.

This looks something related to security which needs to be enabled, could someone shed some light on this please.

Thanks
 
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check that the permissions on the ping binary are setuid root:

chmod u+s /usr/sbin/ping

ls -l should look like this:

-r-sr-xr-x
 
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