Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: ping: sendto: Permission denied | Date | 15 Mar 1999 08:31:05 +0100 |
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Chris Wedgwood <cw@ix.net.nz> writes: > > later versions of ping set SO_BROADCAST to allow this... or you can > run ping as root. > _and_. Ping refuses to set that flag if it's not been started by root.
Good thing, too.
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