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Hi list, I am getting the followin

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rgoud

IS-IT--Management
May 9, 2002
21
US
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
 
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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