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From: Mark D Smith <msmith@revolution.3-cities.com>
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Subject: Re: ps and ping problems?
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In-Reply-To: <199704280326.UAA18061@revolution.3-cities.com> from "Mark D Smith" at Apr 27, 97 08:26:36 pm
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Thanks to all that replied.  The permissions are indeed set wrong.
I've notified them of this but I doubt I'll get much of a response.

Maybe I'll start phoning them until I get an answer.

Thanks

Mark

> 
> 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???
> 
> Thanks
> 
> mark
> 
>