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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!usc!usc!not-for-mail From: yax@phakt.usc.edu (Ya Xu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: ping problem Date: 15 Apr 1996 00:33:30 -0700 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 18 Sender: yax@phakt.usc.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ksu4a$q4j@phakt.usc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu 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