On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks.
Sorry about that. I use gmail, and try to remember to erase the addresses manually, but every once in a while it escapes me. If anyone knows of a labs feature that can do that, just let me know! > On 09/25/2009 10:58 AM, Gustavo Seabra wrote: >> >> Sorry, my bad. Here is the cygcheck. >> >> I use Vista Ultimate, 32 bits. > > The previous thread that you refer to applies here unless you're running > your shell with elevated permissions (and your user is part of the > administrator group). As noted, this only applies to Cygwin's ping. The > Windows ping (the one which you showed working) does not have this > restriction. > I see... here's what I don't understand: I have been using cygwin for years without this problem. ping has always "just worked" for me, so I wonder if something has changed recently in the way this is done. Is it possible that before I was somehow invoking DOS's ping from within cygwin? If so, would just uninstalling cygwin's ping solve the problem? Thanks a lot, Gustavo. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
