On Sep 25 13:17, Gustavo Seabra wrote: > 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?
Yes. Only the Windows ping works without Admin privs right now. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
