Re: can ping only with sudo

2007-10-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi David, On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 05:46:58PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On 10/6/07, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > lately i inadvertently did 'chmod 777 -R /dev' on my system (as root, of > > course!). now i find that to ping anyone i have to do it as sudo, else i > > get: > > > >

Re: can ping only with sudo

2007-10-06 Thread David Fox
On 10/6/07, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lately i inadvertently did 'chmod 777 -R /dev' on my system (as root, of > course!). now i find that to ping anyone i have to do it as sudo, else i get: > > ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted Something is odd indeed. I attem

Re: can ping only with sudo

2007-10-06 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, tom arnall wrote: lately i inadvertently did 'chmod 777 -R /dev' on my system (as root, of course!). now i find that to ping anyone i have to do it as sudo, else i get: ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted could the two things be connected? thanks, tom