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To: Mark D Smith <msmith@revolution.3-cities.com>
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Subject: Re: ps and ping problems? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 Apr 1997 20:26:36 PDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 21:05:17 -0700
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>Greetings,
>
>My local ISP is using BSDI (forgot what version) for their central 
>service box.
>
>Ping now gives the following message:
>ping: socket: Permission denied
>
>ps now gives the following message:
>ps: /dev/kmem: Permission denied
>
>Is there ANY reason for this???

   Looks like someone went and removed setuid and setgid from all of the
standard system binaries that need them.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project