Ping problem

[R.Suresh]

Dear all,

I am working in a software company as a
HP-UX adminstrator.

One of my user compiled a program which
includes pinging to the other machine.
while running this,it aborted at some step.

Now none of the userid of that machine could
able to ping other than root.

It says

"Ping:soket permission denied."

Any one faced this kind of problem.

Thanks & Regards
R.Suresh.

[Alexander M. Ermes]

Hi there.
Your user is not allowed to cerate a socket in a tmp - directory.
Check the acces rights for this.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

[R.Suresh]

Dear Alex,

Thanks for your response,

I am able to create files on /tmp as well as
/var/tmp from that user.

I feel some socket lock happend for ping.
How can I find & remove it?
Thanks

[Alexander M. Ermes]

Hi there.
run a ping as root and try to find the socket with the find and the ctime parameter.
I am not really sure, where the socket will be created.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

[Alexander M. Ermes]

Hi there.
Try the find command with the -type s
parameter.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

[Darrel Louis]

Can you please check if the permissions of /usr/sbin/ping is correct.
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 36864 Aug 20 1999 ping

Owner and the sticky bit

[nnf97]

Look up doc ID:A3942218 on itrc.hp.com
It defines exactly the same problem and lists the solution.

Regards,
Nabeel