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Re: ping must run as root?!



On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 10:49:41AM +0100, Nils Jeppe wrote:
> 
> Did this nonsense creep in with today's update, or has it been so for a
> few days? ;-)
> 
> bash-2.03$ ping cisco8
> ping: ping must run as root

Ping must always run as root, since the dawn of Unix itself. Either the
package lost it's perms (which I haven't noticed), or you changed
something about ping.

Ben

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