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From: yax@phakt.usc.edu (Ya Xu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: ping problem
Date: 15 Apr 1996 00:33:30 -0700
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I am the system adminintrator of BSDI. I found that
the users except root can't use ping command:

% ping www.mit.edu
ping: socket: Permission denied


The permission of ping is:

-rwsr-xr-x  1 bin  bin  12288 Apr 14 11:37 /sbin/ping

Does anybody know how to handle it ?

Thank you in advance

Ya Xu
USC
yaxu@usc.edu