Listings Question About Ping

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Dec 22 21:53:56 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 15:48 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: 
> On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 15:13 -0500, 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? I ask because I've 
> > installed another program recently that has the same color display, and 
> > I'm trying to figure out why.
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> 
> Same here. Do : ls /bin/*  and you will see he programs hat display
> like: mount, umount, ping, su, fusermounnt, and ping6.
> 
> I can't figure out what these programs have in common to be displayed in
> a special color.

What they have in common is there Access is 4755 while the rest I think
are 0755 
> 


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