[ale] ping: sendto: permission denied

[Fletch]

>>>>> "David" == David S Jackson <dsj at sylvester.dsj.net> writes:

    David> What does it mean when ping says ping: sendto: permission
    David> denied

        Probably that your ping isn't setuid to root (ping needs to be 
able to open a raw socket in order to send ICMP packets).

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