From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Ferrari Subject: Re: ping by name does not work (sometimes) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:10:30 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200407191610.30706.fluca1978@infinito.it> References: <200407141751.42558.fluca1978@infinito.it> <200407161841.02110.fluca1978@infinito.it> <1090241219.30552.1.camel@mcbain.imagelinks.com> Reply-To: fluca1978@infinito.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1090241219.30552.1.camel@mcbain.imagelinks.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org On Monday 19 July 2004 14:46 Jeff Largent's cat walking on the keyboard wrote: > What are the permissions on /bin/ping?? > should be root:root and 4755 for users other than root to be able to > ping. > Permissions are right, and today it seems working with all accounts. The only thing happens between Saturday (not working) and today (working) was the change of the network socket (i.e., the switch port the computer is tied to). Can be a cable problem or something else? Luca -- Luca Ferrari, fluca1978@infinito.it