F15 ping must run as root?

Joachim Backes joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Mon Mar 14 12:46:57 UTC 2011


On 03/14/2011 01:18 PM, Martin Sourada wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:08:17 +0100 
> Joachim Backes wrote:
>>
>> ls -l /bin/ping
>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 backes backes 40840 Feb  9 17:00 /bin/ping
>>
>> But
>>
>> chown root.root /bin/ping
>>
>> does not solve the problem, still "operation not permitted", even
>> after chmod u+s /bin/ping.
>>
> There's something weird there indeed. Notice the difference in
> file-size:
> 
> $ ls -l /bin/ping
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 39344 Feb  9 17:00 /bin/ping
> 
> $ rpm -q iputils
> iputils-20101006-7.fc15.i686

Seems to be a x86_64 problem (I have a 64bit machine with
iputils-20101006-7.fc15.x86_64).

Kind regards

-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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