How to enable ping for new users

[Rahul Kumar Gupta]

Dear All,
How to enable ping. We are having two risc servers on which HPOV applications have been installed. I have created a user of Users group, but i am not able to ping any IP address of same subnet after loggin by that user.

[Pete Randall]

Ping should already be enabled. What are the permissions and where is it located?

$ ll `whence ping`
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 32768 Oct 23 2002 /usr/sbin/ping


Pete

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Greetings,

What does the command give as output?
not found?

Also check, edit and correct (if needed) in the users .profile:
# Set up the search paths:
PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:.



All the best
Victor

[Bill Hassell]

When you say:

> not able to ping any IP address ...

do you mean that ping runs just fine and simply fails to get a response? Or do you mean that if you use ping and a hostname and ping says hostname not found? Or does ping say permission denied? Or does the ping command say: program not found?

Need a bit more information. There is no configuration between any user and the ping command.

[Rob Fisher]

Since ping is located in /etc you might have to specify /etc/ping.

However, if that is not the problem, the you might try to use traceroute.

This would tell you if you were getting anywhere. It might be that your network administrators are not allowing ICMP packets on the network.

[Rahul Kumar Gupta]

Dear All,
I have attached a document, which is containing the o/p of all the commands. Still i am not able to ping any IP address in the same subnet.

Plz tell me what should i do now.

[Anshumali]

i saw the doc....
1. i could see the path is in the profile.
2. file permissions looks ok.

could you try....
i hope you edited the profile as per suggestions above. logout login again(profile execute) or run the profile and check again....

else post the output for

/etc/ping 131.2.10.12

[Rahul Kumar Gupta]

Mr. Anshumali i have done this also...logout and login again, but still no pinging..

Is it needed to restart the server.

[Torsten.]

ping is in /usr/sbin , but this path is not included in a users path var per default.

As this user, try

/usr/sbin/ping ...

You may include this path into PATH as mentioned above.

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

Based on your attachment, the error is:

ping not found

So tell the users to type in the full path:

/usr/sbin/ping 12.34.56.78

This will work OK although inconvenient. It is important to note that /usr/sbin is not normally in an ordinary user's $PATH because the majority of commands in that directory are root-only commands. ping is one exception, so there are two fixes:

1. Change the file: /etc/PATH and add :/usr/sbin (carefully) to the end of the long line, or

2. Change each user's .profile to add the line:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin

and have the user login again. Now ping will be found.

[Anshumali]

There is no restart required. This is a path issue, thats all. Did you try suggestions by Bill? whats the outcome?

[Rahul Kumar Gupta]

Thnx All,

Finally I am able to ping. I did all the steps in a sequence as all of you told me, But after

1. Change the file:/etc/PATH and add :/usr/sbin (carefully) to the end of the long line.

Making the above correction, Its working fine for all nonroot users. It means this problem is not related to any particular user. Now I have deleted the entry in the .profile.

#set up the search paths:
PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:.
To
PATH=$PATH:.
Still its working.

Thnx all

[Torsten.]

Now read this please:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33

[Rahul Kumar Gupta]

Ya i will do, it looks like a good theam

[Rahul Kumar Gupta]

Thnx All,

Finally I am able to ping. I did all the steps in a sequence as all of you told me, But after

1. Change the file:/etc/PATH and add :/usr/sbin (carefully) to the end of the long line.

Making the above correction, Its working fine for all nonroot users. It means this problem is not related to any particular user. Now I have deleted the entry in the .profile.

#set up the search paths:
PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:.
To
PATH=$PATH:.
Still its working.

Thnx all