Re: network problems running frozen on alpha


Subject: Re: network problems running frozen on alpha
From: David Huggins-Daines (dhd@linuxcare.com)
Date: Tue Jul 04 2000 - 11:28:10 PDT


Geoff Mitchell <gmitchell@primary.net> writes:

> Attempting to ping from the alpha, I get the following:
>
> ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
>
> for each packet it attempts to send.

Looks like /bin/ping is no longer setuid root (yes, it needs to be).

It's likely that the post-installation script for netbase
(/var/lib/dpkg/info/netbase.postinst if you want to look at it) failed
to execute correctly, as that's where the permissions are set.

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