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Re: [cobalt-users] [Qube 2]"Ping Must run as root"
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] [Qube 2]"Ping Must run as root"
- From: "Brian Curtis" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon Dec 4 06:37:49 2000
- Organization: Pomfret Computer Technologies
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> Hello all!
> Sorry, this loks like s tupid newbie question. After an all-nighter I am
> a stupid [something] but anyway:
> I'm trying to run ping as a user, i.e. logged in as myself and not su'd
> to root where of course I have no problem running ping. As root, I
> chgrp'd ping and chown'd ping to my username to be able to run it
> without being root all the time which IMHO is a bad idea.
> I'm still getting the same error message even after chgrp'ing and
> chown'ing the thing.
> [Tired Question] Can anyone tell me what the heck I'm missing here?
> Regards,
> -Colin
> --
> Colin J. Raven
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Brian Curtis