What are the permissions on /bin/ping?? should be root:root and 4755 for users other than root to be able to ping. On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 12:41, Luca Ferrari wrote: > On Friday 16 July 2004 18:14 jim roy's cat walking on the keyboard wrote: > > > On 2004.07.16 06:33 Luca Ferrari wrote: > > > On Thursday 15 July 2004 11:06 Benoit Desforges's cat walking on the > > > keyboard > > > > > > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:51:42 +0200, Luca Ferrari > > > > <fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I've found this problem on a suse 8.0 machine: if I try to ping a > > > > > machine by its name the program stay locked (no messages, neither > > > > > errors). If I ping with the IP address everything works. A problem of > > > > > DNS? I thought this, but other users on the same machine can ping by > > > > > a DNS name. I'm talking, of course, of non privileged users. > > > > > Any idea? > > > > > > > > > > Luca > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Luca Ferrari, > > > > > fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > > Are you sure that all the different users can read the /etc/host file ? > > > > I would sugest you to check if this actualy readable by everybody. but > > > > I may be wrong ... > > > > > > The file is readable by everyone > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 677 2003-10-18 11:37 /etc/hosts > > > and furthermore the entry I'm trying to ping is not included in the file > > > (and there's not a NIS file sharing), thus it must be requested thru DNS. > > > Any idea? > > > > Are you sure the other users are using the same ping? > > > > > Yes, indeed. > > magroup1:~ # ping cabri > PING cabri.ing.unimo.it (155.185.48.114) from 155.185.48.60 : 56(84) bytes of > data. > 64 bytes from cabri.ing.unimo.it (155.185.48.114): icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 > time=19.0 ms > > --- cabri.ing.unimo.it ping statistics --- > 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% loss, time 0ms > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 19.015/19.015/19.015/0.000 ms > magroup1:~ # which ping > /bin/ping > > magroup1:~ # su - luca > luca@magroup1:~> which ping > /bin/ping > luca@magroup1:~> ping cabri > > luca@magroup1:~> > > (last line due to my ^C). > > It's weird, isn't it? > > Luca > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
