Listings Question About Ping

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 23:55 -0500, Richard Heck wrote: 
> On 12/22/2011 03:33 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> > Richard Heck wrote:
> >> When I do:
> >>      ls /bin/ping
> >> I get "ping" displayed with black text on a red background. I don't see
> >> anything special about its permissions. What's up?
> >
> > Fedora switched[1] from using the suid-bit to capabilities. If you 
> > wish to see capabilities you can run "getcap" on the file.
> >
> > $ getcap /bin/ping
> >
> > [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RemoveSETUID
> >
> Thanks. I did eventually figure this out. Unfortunately, there doesn't 
> seem to be much documentation about this particular set of colors, 
> though it is reminiscent of what happens with e.g. mount and umount.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 

I guess I am thick because I can't understand the explanation in the web
page above. An example or two might have helped.
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