Richard Black wrote: > > Hi all > > I have too much security on my machine :-) > > I want other machines on the network to be able to ping me (and later, > to be able to connect via sockets to a server on another machine on the > net work). > > Currently, if I try and ping my machine from another host I get: > > ping: socket: Permission denied
make sure the /bin/ping is owned by root.root and it is setuid. assuming the other machine is debian it should look something like this: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 14896 Jul 15 2000 /bin/ping nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
