From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Sep 17 15:50:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 152D137B423 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 15:50:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8HMlcv42458; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:47:38 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8HMhsm03795; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:43:54 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200009172243.e8HMhsm03795@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mike Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: socket In-Reply-To: Message from Mike of "Sun, 17 Sep 2000 18:37:54 EDT." <4.3.2.7.2.20000917183721.0f6e5e48@mail.mikesweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:43:54 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > What would I have disabled that would cause normal users to get the > following message when trying to use ping or traceroute. > ping: socket: Operation not permitted Your firewall ? If you've got a firewall configured, it usually defaults to rejecting everything. > Thanks > Mike -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message