[uClibc]netkit-tiny

[Erik Andersen]

On Mon Feb 26, 2001 at 01:06:36PM -0500, Gennady Feldman wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Erik Andersen wrote:
> [clipped]
> >     [andersen at slag busybox]$ ./busybox ping 166.70.14.212
> >     ping: permission denied. (are you root?)
> [clipped]
> 
>  Do you really need to be root to be able to run ping? I can run regular
> ping as a regular user w/o having to be root? Also I remember that in some
> cases ping could be changed to provide a "simple" ping where the only
> output is:
> 
>     server is alive.
> 
> or
>     server is down.
> 
> Or something of this sort. This way at least we are able to use some sort
> of ping to check status of the server as a regular user.

[andersen at slag andersen]$ ls -la `which ping`
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root        14908 Aug 16  2000 /bin/ping*
   ^
   -------setuid root

 -Erik

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