From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 6 13: 3: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.toplink.net (mail.toplink.net [195.2.171.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4003114E38 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:02:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ck@toplink.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.toplink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id WAA02857; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 22:02:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Christian Kratzer Received: from localhost (ck@localhost) by hirvi.toplink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA03043; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 22:02:05 +0200 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 22:02:05 +0200 (MEST) To: Martyn Routley Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: traceroute In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-NCC-RegID: de.toplink X-Spammer-Kill-Ratio: 75% X-Jihad: Will hunt down all cases of Spam and Net abuse. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, traceroute needs to be suid root so that it can use raw sockets. ck@mail.toplink.net: {8} ls -l /usr/sbin/trace* -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 16384 Oct 21 1997 /usr/sbin/traceroute* ck@mail.toplink.net: {9} propaly following will fix it chown root:bin /usr/sbin/traceroute chmod 4555 /usr/sbin/traceroute could be somebody has down a chown -R over /usr or something similar Greetings Christian On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Martyn Routley wrote: > Hi > > Will anybody help me with this please? > > Traceroute has stopped working - I now get the following message- > > colossus# traceroute www.freebsd.org > traceroute: icmp socket: Operation not permitted > colossus# > > As far as I know, nobody has hacked any config files, ping works without a > problem, rc.firewall is not invoked, on an identical machine (i think) it > works fine. > > please!!!!! > > Martyn R > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- TopLink Internet Services GmbH ck@171.2.195.in-addr.arpa Christian Kratzer http://www.toplink.net/ Phone: +49 7032 2701-0 Fax: +49 7032 2701-19 FreeBSD spoken here! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message