Re: Trouble with icmp

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@cs.utwente.nl)
Tue, 4 Mar 1997 10:01:07 +0100

Jeffrey Solloway <jsollowa@cisco.com> said:

Jeffrey> % icmp echo engibu
Jeffrey> ntping: warning: running with euid 65534 -- not with root permissions.

Jeffrey> The ntping program has the setuid bit set and is owned by
Jeffrey> root. ANy and all help would be appreciated.

You are very likely running ntping from a NFS mounted partition which
dis-allows setuid root. You have two options: Install ntping on a
local partition or mount the NFS partition with the appropriate flags.

Juergen

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