On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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.
Thanks. Uninstalling cygwin's version of ping solved the problem. 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
