Re: Trouble with icmp

Brian Moore (bem@cmc.net)
Tue, 4 Mar 1997 07:11:38 -0800 (PST)

I bet it's sitting on an NFS-mounted drive.

Remeber, root exports as nobody. Put it on a local drive or allow root
on the export.

On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Jeffrey Solloway wrote:

> I've just downloaded, built and installed scotty on SunOS.
> I'm executing a simple icmp command and get the following
> message.
>
> % icmp echo engibu
> ntping: warning: running with euid 65534 -- not with root permissions.
> ntping: warning: expect missing permissions getting the icmp socket.
> ntping: cannot get icmp socket; reason: Permission denied
> reading icmp result failed: Error 0
>
> The ntping program has the setuid bit set and is owned by
> root. ANy and all help would be appreciated.

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