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 PS: Sorry if you get this twice, I seem to have garbled he cc field. -- | Institute of Geophysics phone: +49 40 4123 4389 ANDREE LEIDENFROST | University of Hamburg fax: +49 40 4123 5441 Geophysicist | Bundesstrasse 55 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | D-20146 Hamburg www: www.app-geoph.dkrz.de