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From: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Just installed 2.2-GAMMA
Date: 11 Mar 1997 13:47:48 -0600
Organization: Computer Science Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo
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In article <5g4b3o$57b@ultra.exodus.net>,
Rajesh Raman <rajesh@no.such.domain> wrote:
>I installed 2.2-GAMMA a week ago. I can't "ping localhost". sendto()
>returns a "Permission denied" error.

is your /sbin/ping suid to root?

--mark.