Re: first installation, network problem

[Andree Leidenfrost <leidenfrost@dkrz.de>]

Hi Bob,

interesting point. I think you are right:

-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root        12476 Feb 14 02:22 /bin/ping

However, I wonder why ping has to be setuid root. Anybody more
knowledgeable than me out there?

Regards,

        Andree

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